I am not bumping, I am seriously trying to contact the plugin author as requested by Mika Epstein:
From his email:
You can clone the plugin, it’s called forking, but you could also offer to take it over.
Before we can consider this request, we have a few requirements.
1. Please attempt to contact the original developer. If you can’t email them, have you tried leaving a comment in their plugin’s support page? We expect you to make all reasonable efforts to reach out to them. If you HAVE reached out, how and where did you do so?
2. Have a completed, updated, version of the code. We expect you to ensure the plugin abides by all our guidelines and has any security issues you find resolved.
If you have, then please send us the code. After we receive your version of the code as a zip, we will review it and test it. If we feel the code would be accepted today as a new plugin, we will contact the original developer on your behalf and give them your information, explaining that you want to take over development.
Should they reply, we will honor their decision. If they don’t reply, we give them 7-14 days and then either hand over the plugin, or ask you convert the plugin into a fork. In most cases, we’ll do everything we can to ensure the original plugin author has been notified, but sometimes that’s just not possible. We do our best to respect them as much as we respect you as a developer, and honor their wishes with their work.
