Yeah, especially since a takeover does require actually documenting you’ve made real efforts to reach the maintainer / last person to do a package upload.
I think you shouldn't reasonably fear a takeover demand on the
mailing-list if you don't disappear for years without a clear successor.
Le 12/03/2021 à 12:36, Henning Thielemann a écrit :
>
> On Thu, 11 Mar 2021, amindfv--- via Haskell-Cafe wrote:
>
>> Again, trying to be respectful here, but "burning" kinda does imply
>> "fire," and "need" certainly does imply "need." It's now seeming more
>> just like a desire for the package name.
>
> I have nothing to do with 'toml' but the many takeover requests in the
> recent past make me nervous that if I am away from Haskell programming
> for some weeks or months brings me in danger of losing my packages.
> Btw. for some years I was not subscribed to Haskell Cafe because of
> high traffic and I would have missed such takeover request. I think
> the preference should be to create a fork.
>
> Tom, could you please add a Maintainer field at hackage/toml via the
> Hackage revision feature?
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