Re: [Haskell-cafe] What to do about an absent package maintainer?

alangley:

The HsOpenSSL package[1] is good work, but the author doesn't respond to email(*). I've a bunch of darcs patches to add tests, DSA support and fast Integer <-> BIGNUM functions. Can I use my Hackage account to upload version 0.2 if someone else uploaded 0.1? It is reasonable?

I'm guessing that this issue will start to occur more often now that we have Hackage. It's probably good to have some policy.

Yes, if you can't contact the author, despite reasonable efforts, we can usually declare 'maintainer timeout' and then any interested party can claim maintainership. -- Don