Confidential
The goal of my mail was, as I tried to include that in the last part of the message, to try to figure out what could be done to improve the situation: - accept or close the PR - fix or close the issues
I can even imagine that there are companies out there - e.g. the employers of those on this list - that might be ready to finance some work around Dancer. There might be some core maintainers who would be ready to accept payment for some extra work on Dancer (or lets say Dancer* meaning also all the plugins).
As a user of Dancer in a system that makes us money, I am sure I can convince our company to subscribe to a "maintenance plan" of sorts. There is nothing specific I need from dancer, but security fixes, compatibility with perl/package updates will be crucial for us. And if that means end users have a way of contributing to a maintenance fund, I would support that... Z