Dear Café, does anyone happen to know what became of James Cook? (The programmer [1,2] a.k.a. mokus, not the explorer.) On github his last commit was in May. I've been trying to contact him at mokus@deepbondi.net three timessince March, but no luck. I'm using his package [3] which does not have a public repo. It needs minor adjustments to comply with the MonadFail change. Currently I have no intentions to properly take over the package, since James does seem to be an active developer generally, but James hasn't answered my request to become a hackage co-maintainer of [3] either. Does anyone know alternative channels to reach James? Or could such a minor adjustment [4] be made by the hackage trustees? Thanks Olaf [1] https://hackage.haskell.org/user/JamesCook [2] https://github.com/mokus0 [3] https://hackage.haskell.org/package/dbf [4] dbf-0.0.0.2 is broken by the removal of "fail" from the Monad class, as src/Database/XBase/Dbf/Structures.hs uses fail in line 61 and binary does not implement MonadFail for its PutM Monad. A quick workaround is to replace the call to fail by error. (Which should be semantically equivalent for the old Control.Monad.fail)