Generally we (the Hackage admins) ask you to do the following before asking
us to take over a package.
Maintainer unreachable:
1. Try to contact the maintainer. Give him/her reasonable time to respond.
2. State your intention to take over the package in a public forum (e.g.
haskell-cafe/libraries list). CC maintainer.
3. Wait a while.
4. Send us an email, with a link to the public email thread.
5. We will grant you maintenance rights.
Maintainer reachable:
Option 1 (preferred):
1. Original maintainer gives you access at
http://hackage.haskell.org/package/<package>/maintainers/
Option 2:
1. Email us, with the maintainer CCed.
2. Maintainer replies to email saying it's OK.
3. We grant access.
-- Johan
On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 8:30 AM, Roman Cheplyaka
In the recent past I took over two unmaintained packages: bert and ansi-terminal. I don't mind spending a bit of time to keep our ecosystem from bitrotting.
However, both times I had to go through an irritating procedure of contacting hackage admins, asking them to grant me upload rights, explaining why the maintainers can't do that themselves and why I think the packages are abandoned.
Instead of a feeling that I'm doing something good and useful, I have a feeling that I'm bothering people with my own problems. It also adds unnecessary latency to my work.
So from now on I'll simply fork the packages I need to fix.
Others are of course welcome to use my forks.
(This email was prompted by regex-tdfa which doesn't build on GHC 7.8, and whose maintainer hasn't responded. My fork is at http://hackage.haskell.org/package/regex-tdfa-rc .)
Roman
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