On 2023-02-15 21:46, Ben Franksen wrote:
Am 05.02.23 um 16:52 schrieb Mitchell Rosen:
Hi all, I'd like to take over maintenance responsibility for the `unix-compat` package. Unfortunately, I've been unable to get in touch with the maintainer.
I intend to make a release compatible with `unix-2.8`, and will be around to make subsequent bounds bumps and whatnot.
Hi Mitchell, I made some contributions to unix-compat over the years and found that the current maintainer, while sometimes a bit slow to respond to PRs, is actually quite responsive when prompted via email. (Just a data point, not to suggest you haven't tried that.)
@Ben, this might have been so in the past, but recent evidence suggests otherwise. - I alerted Jacob of the situation over a month ago by email, here is the log for this: https://github.com/jacobstanley/unix-compat/issues/63#issuecomment-138667635... - His profile https://github.com/jacobstanley does not even include an email address. I had to hunt down an email address by searching the web for possible matches. Because unix-compat is quite important for the Haskell ecosystem and (is already not maintained by the original authors), I think we should find a solution quickly and move on with the package takeover. It is anyway good if important packages have co-maintainers that can fill the gap should the current maintainer be unavailable for a longer period of time. @Mitchell: I think the waiting time has now passed and you can contact the Hackage admins to add you to the maintainers of unix-compat on Hackage. Cheers, Andreas