Re: 'temporary' package

Let's update that policy with your and Edwards remarks? On Saturday, May 10, 2014, Erik Hesselink wrote:

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I understand that Max did a bunch of very important work, then became occupied with other things in the world. And in the long term, that needs to be sorted out. But in the short term, a four-day-notice policy is silly. And furthermore, even though there's nothing _wrong_ with forking

On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 8:11 PM, Gershom Bazerman javascript:;> wrote: promiscuously,

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it tends to create a mess, to no good end.

Just a small note since this was mentioned a couple of times: as hackage admins we don't have a 'four-day-notice policy'. The package takeover procedure [0] just says 'a while', and we've taken this to mean at least 2-3 weeks to account for vacations, other absences, general busyness etc.

Erik

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