Taking over maintainership of `fec`

Hello all, I would like to take over maintainership of the `fec` package ( https://hackage.haskell.org/package/fec). fec is a wrapper around a C library for a certain forward erasure code scheme. Neither the C library nor the Haskell bindings have changed much since the package was last published on Hackage but recently I've fixed a multithreading bug that leads to corrupt results and an integer overflow bug that leads to memory corruption and typically a segfault. I would love to make these improvements available via Hackage. I don't think `fec` has much of a user base but I've recently published several cryptographic libraries on Hackage which depend on it and suffer from the two issues mentioned above. I'm also an upstream maintainer of the project (https://github.com/tahoe-lafs/zfec). I have emailed the current maintainer and original author of the Haskell bindings, Adam Langley (cced), about becoming a maintainer but I haven't yet heard back. Thanks, Jean-Paul

On Tue, Sep 26, 2023 at 09:37:46AM -0400, Jean-Paul Calderone wrote:
I have emailed the current maintainer and original author of the Haskell bindings, Adam Langley (cced), about becoming a maintainer but I haven't yet heard back.
I didn't know AGL was (in the past?) a Haskeller. If he hasn't responded in the meantime, I'll reach out via office email, to ask whether he's inclined to continue to maintain the "fec" package. -- Viktor.

On Tue, Sep 26, 2023 at 11:00 AM Viktor Dukhovni
On Tue, Sep 26, 2023 at 09:37:46AM -0400, Jean-Paul Calderone wrote:
I have emailed the current maintainer and original author of the Haskell bindings, Adam Langley (cced), about becoming a maintainer but I haven't yet heard back.
I didn't know AGL was (in the past?) a Haskeller. If he hasn't responded in the meantime, I'll reach out via office email, to ask whether he's inclined to continue to maintain the "fec" package.
Thanks Viktor, that would be wonderful. Jean-Paul
-- Viktor.
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On Tue, Sep 26, 2023 at 01:05:05PM -0400, Jean-Paul Calderone wrote:
On Tue, Sep 26, 2023 at 09:37:46AM -0400, Jean-Paul Calderone wrote:
I have emailed the current maintainer and original author of the Haskell bindings, Adam Langley (cced), about becoming a maintainer but I haven't yet heard back.
I didn't know AGL was (in the past?) a Haskeller. If he hasn't responded in the meantime, I'll reach out via office email, to ask whether he's inclined to continue to maintain the "fec" package.
Thanks Viktor, that would be wonderful.
Adam's response: Thanks. After 15 years they're welcome to take it over -- Viktor.

On Tue, Sep 26, 2023 at 1:59 PM Viktor Dukhovni
On Tue, Sep 26, 2023 at 01:05:05PM -0400, Jean-Paul Calderone wrote:
On Tue, Sep 26, 2023 at 09:37:46AM -0400, Jean-Paul Calderone wrote:
I have emailed the current maintainer and original author of the Haskell bindings, Adam Langley (cced), about becoming a maintainer but I haven't yet heard back.
I didn't know AGL was (in the past?) a Haskeller. If he hasn't responded in the meantime, I'll reach out via office email, to ask whether he's inclined to continue to maintain the "fec" package.
Thanks Viktor, that would be wonderful.
Adam's response:
Thanks. After 15 years they're welcome to take it over
Great news, thanks Viktor. According to https://wiki.haskell.org/Taking_over_a_package there are certain steps Adam should take to make this official, but I'll see if the Hackage admins are satisfied with this thread or not.
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On Wed, Sep 27, 2023 at 8:56 AM Jean-Paul Calderone < exarkun@twistedmatrix.com> wrote:
On Tue, Sep 26, 2023 at 1:59 PM Viktor Dukhovni
wrote: On Tue, Sep 26, 2023 at 01:05:05PM -0400, Jean-Paul Calderone wrote:
On Tue, Sep 26, 2023 at 09:37:46AM -0400, Jean-Paul Calderone wrote:
I have emailed the current maintainer and original author of the Haskell bindings, Adam Langley (cced), about becoming a maintainer but I haven't yet heard back.
I didn't know AGL was (in the past?) a Haskeller. If he hasn't responded in the meantime, I'll reach out via office email, to ask whether he's inclined to continue to maintain the "fec" package.
Thanks Viktor, that would be wonderful.
Adam's response:
Thanks. After 15 years they're welcome to take it over
Great news, thanks Viktor. According to https://wiki.haskell.org/Taking_over_a_package there are certain steps Adam should take to make this official, but I'll see if the Hackage admins are satisfied with this thread or not.
Viktor, I would be grateful if I could impose on you to give this one more little push. Do you think you could ask Alex to email hackage-admin@haskell.org saying "I would like jcalderone to take over the fec package"? He could probably even just forward this email. Much appreciated, Jean-Paul
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Jean-Paul Calderone
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