Tom,

I have been eyeing a remake of this package for a long time for some of my projects. To be clear: there is no fire that needs to be put out, but I do have a need. The package has been out of commission for 7 years, and there are certainly no relevant downstream dependencies at this point. Do you have a source repository or existing code that I could see or make use of in the interim period between now and a release? 

I'm genuinely surprised there was someone else made maintainer of the package without a public takeover. When/how did this happen? Did I miss the takeover announcement? Carter and I were looking into this in February of last year, and the need arose again, so I brought it up today. 

Thanks,
E




On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 12:09 AM, <amindfv@mailbox.org> wrote:

On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 11:43:14PM -0500, Carter Schonwald wrote:

Are you talking about tomland ??

No, I'm talking about https://hackage.haskell.org/package/toml .

There’s no GitHub url on the toml package from 2014 ...

I think the main priority here is having a canonically good toml lib for the community, in a good name space, That meets our needs robustly (I think emily has some interesting AND WORTHY uses in mind).

Can you share the dev repo?

To be clear: this is in the context hackage is a public commons and its name space is a resource. Do you have any immediate plans/needs for that specific package name?

If not, we promise to give some excellent code a great home in the toml name space if you hand it over. Everyone will be happy and joyous at the resulting work that emily will facilitate. And dogs will dance in the streets and children will smile.

Respectfully, this conversation started because of the claim "I have a burning need." I actually cancelled a plan I had tonight because I wanted to be sure I could be responsive if there was some system going down because of e.g. an outdated set of dependencies. Now the discussion is about how "toml" is a nice name and there are interesting ideas for as-yet unwritten code.

If there really is a burning need, I'm still around. Otherwise I'm feeling a bit duped.

Tom

If you still have any residual concerns, emily and I are happy to hop on a video chat to solve worries therof.

Cheers!

-Carter

On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 11:15 PM amindfv@mailbox.org <amindfv@mailbox.org> wrote:

I'm in the middle of a package overhaul. If there's a burning need for fixes please get in touch (off-list?) and let me know what you need.

Thanks,
Tom

On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 10:36:27PM -0500, Carter Schonwald wrote:

If you’re the maintainer of
https://hackage.haskell.org/package/toml could you give emily

maintainer /

upload perms ? It really needs a new lead :) 2014 is a long time ago

(I co wrote the email to spiros way back when. Any progress on this would be great)

On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 10:05 PM amindfv--- via Haskell-Cafe < haskell-cafe@haskell.org> wrote:

On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 02:13:12AM +0000, Emily Pillmore wrote:

To whom it may concern,

I'd like to take over maintenance of the package `toml`. I have a

burning need. I tried to contact Spiros a year ago, but no response

has

come. The last release was 2017, and it's safe to say the package is totally abandoned. My hackage user is topos.

Hi, I'm a maintainer of `toml`. What do you need?

Tom

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