I ask to take over the maintenance of hashable, uuid and uuid-types
packages.
I'm a maintainer of packages depending on them (most notably
quickcheck-instances and aeson).
I should also mention that when we (Herbert and I) took over Antoine
Latter's packages, I took over quickcheck-instances and Herbert took
over uuid and parsec. We should taken over together in the first place.
My first points of action would be:
- make a releases supporting latest versions of dependencies (GHC-9.0,
bytestring-0.11) and
- move packages to https://github.com/haskellari organization, so in
case of my absence there are people (Ryan Scott, bodigrim, few others)
who will be able to act.
Best regards,
Oleg
Package text-icu (Bryan O'Sullivan) seems to be unmaintained since 2017
https://github.com/haskell/text-icu/issues/30
with the last release in 2015
https://hackage.haskell.org/package/text-icu-0.7.0.1
Unfortunately, the latest release is incompatible with ICU 68.
Has anyone heard from Bryan recently? I mean, he is a Haskell
celebrity... His last activity on github.com was in August 2017.
Anyone interested in maintaining this package?
Since Agda depends on text-icu, I could stand in as a temporary
maintainer to at least merge the most important pull requests, until
there is a new maintainer.
Best regards,
Andreas
All,
The unix package, a core library, has been stalling. (just some examples,
going back up to 6 years: [1] [2] [3] [4]).
Previously, unix was maintained by HVR, a prolific maintainer and open
source contributor of the Haskell ecosystem. His work to date has been
invaluable for many of us today. However, recently, he's been increasingly
unavailable, which happens and is perfectly understandable - life happens.
But, the ecosystem cannot stall (eg [5], [6]) because of a single
contributor, regardless of that contributor's merits or previous work.
Right now, we have many useful (and in some cases necessary for other work,
e.g, for hackage-server 2.0) patches to unix which need to be acted on.
Additionally, there are potential maintainers willing to do the work ([7],
[8], [9], [10]).
On behalf of the CLC, which owns unix, I am announcing that the unix
library will henceforth be under maintainership of the aforementioned
individuals, who are all trusted and knowledgeable members of the
community, looking to improve the library.
I appreciate everyone who has contributed code to unix, maintained unix in
the past, and those who stepped forward to help maintain it going forward.
I hope that these changes will help facilitate positive growth for the
library and ultimately the community, as they have with other core
libraries which have recently been given new supplies of maintainers.
[1]: https://github.com/haskell/unix/pull/145
[2]: https://github.com/haskell/unix/pull/21
[3]: https://github.com/haskell/unix/pull/110
[4]: https://github.com/haskell/unix/pull/122
[5]: https://github.com/haskell/zlib/pull/37
[6]: https://github.com/haskell/zlib/pull/39#issuecomment-774598088
[7]: https://github.com/hs-viktor
[8]: https://github.com/Bodigrim
[9]: https://github.com/emilypi
[10]: https://github.com/davean
