On Thu, 30 Jan 2014 18:30:55 +0200
Roman Cheplyaka
In the recent past I took over two unmaintained packages: bert and ansi-terminal. I don't mind spending a bit of time to keep our ecosystem from bitrotting.
However, both times I had to go through an irritating procedure of contacting hackage admins, asking them to grant me upload rights, explaining why the maintainers can't do that themselves and why I think the packages are abandoned.
Instead of a feeling that I'm doing something good and useful, I have a feeling that I'm bothering people with my own problems. It also adds unnecessary latency to my work.
So from now on I'll simply fork the packages I need to fix.
Others are of course welcome to use my forks.
(This email was prompted by regex-tdfa which doesn't build on GHC 7.8, and whose maintainer hasn't responded. My fork is at http://hackage.haskell.org/package/regex-tdfa-rc .)
Roman
Driven here by http://ro-che.info//articles/2014-02-08-my-haskell-will.html Now as regex-tdfa-1.2.0 is on hackage. What status of your regex-tdfa-rc? May I bug you with performance problems compared to regex-dfa? -- Sergei