Can I suggest to the Hackage Whoever a slight change in policy? I think the shock of seeing a package takeover request for your own package is understandably, uh, shocking, and makes the ensuing discussion tense. I also feel like most takeover requests follow this pattern; rarely does a package end up changing hands. Perhaps it's a problem of tone. Rather than suggesting "State your intention to take over the package in a public forum ", step 2 should lighten up and state, "After trying to reach the maintainer for a reasonable amount of time, reach out to the public to expand your search." https://wiki.haskell.org/Taking_over_a_package On Fri, 12 Mar 2021, 18.59 Henning Thielemann, < lemming@henning-thielemann.de> wrote:
On Fri, 12 Mar 2021, Brandon Allbery wrote:
That depends. Can I in fact, were I looking for a maintainer, find out who to contact about the package? Ideally without much digging.
That's what the Cabal.Maintainer field is for. It is missing in toml, which is bad.