Indeed. Especially since there are people with active  hakage trustee powers, a request on the libraries list to fix an immediate breakage when the maintainer is unreachale for some period of time can now be auctioned upon. <div>
<br></div><div>But this only happens when that request is actually made, along with a concrete fix  proposed and evidence that the maintainer is hard to reach.  </div><div><br></div><div>Would somone like to start that request ? </div>
<div><br></div><div>Note that this is orthogonal to the issue of who will maintain the lib going forward of course. <span></span><br><br>On Friday, May 9, 2014, Erik Hesselink &lt;<a href="mailto:hesselink@gmail.com">hesselink@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Aren&#39;t you overreacting a bit? It&#39;s only been two days since your<br>
initial email...<br>
<br>
Erik<br>
<br>
On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 3:53 PM, Roman Cheplyaka &lt;<a href="javascript:;" onclick="_e(event, &#39;cvml&#39;, &#39;roma@ro-che.info&#39;)">roma@ro-che.info</a>&gt; wrote:<br>
&gt; The worse people treat their packages, the sooner!<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; * Carter Schonwald &lt;<a href="javascript:;" onclick="_e(event, &#39;cvml&#39;, &#39;carter.schonwald@gmail.com&#39;)">carter.schonwald@gmail.com</a>&gt; [2014-05-09 09:46:01-0400]<br>
&gt;&gt; When should we expect a -rc for everything?<br>
&gt;&gt;<br>
&gt;&gt; On Friday, May 9, 2014, Roman Cheplyaka &lt;<a href="javascript:;" onclick="_e(event, &#39;cvml&#39;, &#39;roma@ro-che.info&#39;)">roma@ro-che.info</a>&gt; wrote:<br>
&gt;&gt;<br>
&gt;&gt; &gt; <a href="http://hackage.haskell.org/package/temporary-rc" target="_blank">http://hackage.haskell.org/package/temporary-rc</a><br>
&gt;&gt; &gt;<br>
&gt;&gt; &gt; I am now looking for backup maintainers for this fork to ensure that a<br>
&gt;&gt; &gt; similar<br>
&gt;&gt; &gt; situation won&#39;t occur again. Contact me off list if you&#39;d like to become<br>
&gt;&gt; &gt; one.<br>
&gt;&gt; &gt;<br>
&gt;&gt; &gt; * Roman Cheplyaka &lt;<a href="javascript:;" onclick="_e(event, &#39;cvml&#39;, &#39;roma@ro-che.info&#39;)">roma@ro-che.info</a> &lt;javascript:;&gt;&gt; [2014-05-07<br>
&gt;&gt; &gt; 10:50:00+0300]<br>
&gt;&gt; &gt; &gt; Hi Max,<br>
&gt;&gt; &gt; &gt;<br>
&gt;&gt; &gt; &gt; are you still maintaining the &#39;temporary&#39; package?<br>
&gt;&gt; &gt; &gt; There&#39;s a breakage waiting to be fixed (with a patch):<br>
&gt;&gt; &gt; &gt; <a href="https://github.com/batterseapower/temporary/pull/12" target="_blank">https://github.com/batterseapower/temporary/pull/12</a><br>
&gt;&gt; &gt; &gt;<br>
&gt;&gt; &gt; &gt; If I don&#39;t hear from you in two days, I&#39;ll request maintainership and/or<br>
&gt;&gt; &gt; &gt; fork the package.<br>
&gt;&gt; &gt; &gt;<br>
&gt;&gt; &gt; &gt; Roman<br>
&gt;&gt; &gt;<br>
&gt;<br>
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