Does anyone know where George Pollard is?

Hello, I sent a message to George Pollard (porges@porg.es) about his 'idna' package [1] a couple days ago, but he hasn't responded. I'd like to depend on his package for something that I'm working on, but his package fails to build (The email I sent him includes a patch that should fix up the build problems). The package hasn't been updated for 3 years and he hasn't listed a source control repository. Does anyone know where he is? If not, is there an accepted practice to resolve this situation? Should I upload my own 'idna2' package? Thanks, Myles [1] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/idna

On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 9:03 PM, Myles C. Maxfield
Does anyone know where he is? If not, is there an accepted practice to resolve this situation? Should I upload my own 'idna2' package.
Generally we try to contact the maintainer (and give him/her enough time to reply, in case he/she is e.g. on vacation). After that someone can announce their intention to take over maintenance of the package. -- Johan

"Myles C. Maxfield"
Does anyone know where he is?
On GitHub? https://github.com/Porges One of the repos was apparently updated less than a week ago.
If not, is there an accepted practice to resolve this situation? Should I upload my own 'idna2' package?
You can always upload a fork, but unless you have a lot of new functionality that won't fit naturally in the old package, you can perhaps try a bit more to contact the original author. -k

False alarm. He got back to me.
Thanks,
Myles
On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 12:20 AM, Ketil Malde
"Myles C. Maxfield"
writes: Does anyone know where he is?
On GitHub? https://github.com/Porges One of the repos was apparently updated less than a week ago.
If not, is there an accepted practice to resolve this situation? Should I upload my own 'idna2' package?
You can always upload a fork, but unless you have a lot of new functionality that won't fit naturally in the old package, you can perhaps try a bit more to contact the original author.
-k
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Johan Tibell
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Ketil Malde
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Myles C. Maxfield