Hi everybody, I'd like to take over the following Hackage packages with my account named [esz]: * acme-schoenfinkel, * cascading, * continue, * contstuff-monads-tf, * contstuff-transformers, * contstuff, * dnscache, * fastirc, * ihttp, * instinct, * ismtp, * netlines, * netwire, * quickset, * web-page, * webwire, * yesod-tableview. These are actually already mine, but because my old account has become practically inaccessible, I'm now following the official [takeover procedure], asking myself whether I'm okay with that. =) After the takeover, I'm going to deprecate the following packages, unless someone would like to take over maintenance: * cascading: Clay is more comprehensive and easier to use. * contstuff*: Childhood experiments, because after writing a monad tutorial of course you must write an mtl replacement. * dnscache: Useful library, but needs maintenance. * fastirc: irc is reasonably efficient now (it used to be a String parser). * ihttp: use http-client. * ismtp: Useful library, but needs maintenance and should be rewritten using a modern streaming library. * netlines: use a modern streaming library. * netwire: Useful library, but needs maintenance and has high maintenance cost due to its design. I'll likely replace it by a new abstraction at some point, using a different package name. Currently I recommend using one of the following libraries for FRP: * reactive-banana: My former favourite when it comes to push/pull FRP. Well designed, clean semantics, reasonably efficient. * reflex: My current favourite when it comes to push/pull FRP. Well designed, clean semantics, reasonably efficient. * Yampa: AFRP for games, simulations and other real-time applications (for when a high and predictable framerate is more important than pushed events, same target domain as Netwire). * webwire: Experiment with FRP for handling server-side sessions in web applications. Works with some caveats, not that useful in practice. * yesod-tableview: needs maintenance, not that useful in modern web applications. That leaves the following packages for active maintenance by me, which includes making sure they compile, keeping them free of bugs and verifying/applying contributions. Most of these need maintenance right now: * acme-schoenfinkel: Surprisingly useful joke package. Needs a few adjustments to compile with modern GHC. * continue: Monad transformer for named reentry points, isomorphic to CofreeT. Ideally this should be just an interface to CofreeT from 'free', but unfortunately that one's instances are more restrictive than necessary (Alternative instead of Plus), making it useless. You couldn't use reasonable data structures like HashMap or Map. * instinct: Efficient feed-forward neural networks with backprop learning. To be replaced by a more general machine learning framework at some point, but still useful on its own. Needs maintenance. * quickset: Compact query-only binary search arrays. Needs a more comprehensive API. * web-page: Component system for web pages. Needs a more general API, because currently it makes too many assumptions on which packages you use (blaze-html, clay and jmacro). Note: do not confuse with Athan Clark's 'webpage' library. [esz]: https://hackage.haskell.org/user/esz [takeover procedure]: https://wiki.haskell.org/Taking_over_a_package Greets, Ertugrul