Hi Carter,

random is a "public utility" library, and as such should be maintained by the community.

A group of qualified engineers (which you were welcome to join) have carefully prepared a release, to which it sounds like you don't have any specific technical objections.

Can you explain why they should not be able to make that release, or why you should be a gatekeeper of this process?

I appreciate the difficulty of the situation in which the U.S. is right now, but to me, this is just another reason not to have a single person in charge of a core library.

Roman

On 03/06/2020 17.02, Profpatsch wrote:

I posted this comment on the thread of
https://github.com/haskell/random/pull/62#issuecomment-638088258

Since it was deleted and the comment thread locked by Carter,
I am escalating this request to the mailing list, where it cannot be
deleted.

Profpatsch <notifications@github.com> writes:

@cartazio Please take even a fleeting look at https://github.com/idontgetoutmuch/random/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed, notice the amount of discussion and the timeline.

This is the full-time work of a team of half a dozen of experts, probably breaching one man-year of effort, easily.
It cannot just be discarded out of hand.

I have been following the discussions (spread over mailinglists, issue trackers and elsewhere), and I propose you hand over maintainership of `random` as a base package.

A parallel issue with relevant discussion can be found at
https://github.com/haskell/random/pull/61

I am writing this email from my personal account, because I fear for
the health of the Haskell ecosystem, and I think Carter’s behaviour is
extremely detrimental to it.

I think a lot of other people feel the same way, so I encourage you to
add your voice publicly.

~ Profpatsch

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