the time scale for taking over maintainership without author authorization
is MUCh longer than 2 weeks.
IF you just need to get some simple patch level bug fix improvements, that
is when the hackage trustees can help and get those changes on hackage
while respecting the possibility of the author eventually emerging again.
cheers
-Carter
On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 4:06 AM, Dominic Steinitz
Alexey Uimanov
writes: Hello people. There is a pull request https://github.com/mokus0/dependent-map/pull/2 which I need to be on hackage. I have sent a email to mokus <at> deepbondi.net but nothing happened. Does anyone can contact with James and tell him about my problem?
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Hi Alexey,
I have sporadically communicated with James in the past about random-fu. He is very busy (aren't we all) and he was happy for me take on maintainership of the package. I would suggest you send him an email offering to take on maintainership of dependent-map. He can then give you update access to the git repo and to hackage.
If he doesn't respond (but I expect he will) then there is a process for taking on maintainership of a package where the author has disappeared. I think you email the libraries mailing list saying that is what you propose to do unless you hear from the author in say 2 weeks (just in case they are on holiday). Someone will then grant you access to hackage but you will have to fork the existing repo.
HTH, Dominic.
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