the time scale for taking over maintainership without author authorization is MUCh longer than 2 weeks. IF you just need to get some simple patch level bug fix improvements, that is when the hackage trustees can help and get those changes on hackage while respecting the possibility of the author eventually emerging again. cheers -Carter On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 4:06 AM, Dominic Steinitz wrote:

Alexey Uimanov writes:

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Hello people. There is a pull request https://github.com/mokus0/dependent-map/pull/2 which I need to be on hackage. I have sent a email to mokus <at> deepbondi.net but nothing happened. Does anyone can contact with James and tell him about my problem?

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Hi Alexey,

I have sporadically communicated with James in the past about random-fu. He is very busy (aren't we all) and he was happy for me take on maintainership of the package. I would suggest you send him an email offering to take on maintainership of dependent-map. He can then give you update access to the git repo and to hackage.

If he doesn't respond (but I expect he will) then there is a process for taking on maintainership of a package where the author has disappeared. I think you email the libraries mailing list saying that is what you propose to do unless you hear from the author in say 2 weeks (just in case they are on holiday). Someone will then grant you access to hackage but you will have to fork the existing repo.

HTH, Dominic.

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Hey James, if you want some help setting up travis ci on your projects to test across different ghc versions, please feel to holler. Hvr has setup a lovely default that's easy to add to new projects, his multi - ghc - travis repo lays out some nice steps. Like wise most core libraries use it if you want some nice examples. On Feb 18, 2015 5:08 PM, "James Cook" wrote:

Sorry, as Dominic mentioned I have been quite busy in recent years and it's hard to keep up with e-mail sometimes.

I'm happy to get this particular issue fixed, but I don't have a whole lot of time to chase down the details. In particular, I'd like to make sure the patch doesn't break building on older versions of GHC (or, depending on the versions it breaks, at least make sure the cabal file doesn't claim to work when it doesn't). I can take a look at this sometime soon, but if you happen to be able to track down info on which versions of GHC support the syntax you changed to, I can make the needed changes a bit sooner (or merge as-is, whichever is appropriate).

-- James

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Hello people. There is a pull request https://github.com/mokus0/dependent-map/pull/2 which I need to be on hackage. I have sent a email to mokus@deepbondi.net but nothing happened.

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