Hi all,

The short version is: I’ve been battling RSI in my fingers for some years. I’m doing various things to mitigate that problem, but I have very limited finger bandwidth these days; enough to work at my usual pace at my job, but not much in the evenings and weekends, and so I can’t manage to do much on my hobby projects. I’m also not as motivated these days to work on my set of open source projects, and am turning my attention to different things. It’s not great, but that’s life.

I don’t think that the users of my packages are getting the best maintainership deal. Rather than be “the absentee maintainer”, I’d prefer a straight-forward transition of maintainership or ownership to someone who can put the right energy and time in.

In terms of packages, there are really two that have a significant maintenance burden and users aren’t being served very well:

• HIndent has a significant amount of issues opened for it regularly, and many of them require discussion and debate. If someone would like to become a co-maintainer, let me know. It may (eventually) make sense to move it to a more general GitHub organization like commercialhaskell or haskell.
• Intero, which seems to have been a success, has a pretty big maintenance burden on “this doesn’t work” kind of issues which require investigation. There’s some Emacs Lisp work to do on it, and some Haskell work on the intero binary, and a whole lot of platform-specific problems or tooling not working together. On the other hand people really like this project, and there’s a lot of tooling potential.

If you want to take xeno and make it into a publishable package, please do so.

The rest of my projects that are on Stackage are: labels, ace, ical, check-email, freenect, frisby, gd, ini, lucid, osdkeys, pdfinfo, present, pure-io, scrobble, shell-conduit, sourcemap, descriptive, wrap, path, weigh, haskell-docs, and structured-haskell-mode. If you’re interested in taking over or co-maintaining any of them, let me know. Some are interesting, others are boring, some are trivial.

I have other packages on Hackage, but they’re mostly dead or experiments that don’t need maintenance anyway.

I’ve started the process of adding or changing maintainers on my public services:

• Haskell News is now a GitHub organization. Luke Murphy is a co-owner, and has full access to the DigitalOcean account that is running the service. So if you want to work on that project, I’m not in the way.
• lpaste has been moved to its own DigitalOcean account too. If anyone is interested in taking over the project or co-running it, let me know.
• tryhaskell doesn’t really require any maintenance, but it’s also on its own DigitalOcean account now too.
• IRCBrowse is now on its own DigitalOcean account too. It requires maintenance once in a while. If anyone is interested in taking over the project or co-running it, let me know.

Cheers!