Hi again, and happy new year! :) I'd like to revive this thread, now that the holiday season has passed. Sorry for my somewhat naive attempts to get people involved in my last emails – I have shortened my CC-list since. :) I have noticed some healthy activity in the bytestring project in the meantime: * Duncan suggested in [#198] that GHC 8.10.1 use the existing bytestring-0.10.10.0 release. * [#140] has seen more productive discussion on the future of ByteString's IsString instance, with much valuable input from Herbert. * At least 3 PRs ([#142], [#196], [#182]) have become ready for merge (as far as I can tell), although they didn't get a maintainer response in the last 3 weeks, which I largely attribute to the holidays. * [#196], which I prepared with the help of Sylvain Henry, fixed the build of bytestring's benchmark suite which had been broken since 2015 ([#52]), and which had been an impediment to many PRs since. This has allowed me to detect a rather worrying performance regression in GHC 8.10, [#17660]. Many thanks to everyone involved! :) What remains unclear to me is who will lead the effort of taking care of bytestring's backlog of open PRs and issues. I still doubt that Duncan or Herbert have the necessary bandwidth. Duncan, I would be very grateful if you could share your own perspective on this in this thread! Since I had addressed my last email to the CLC, I also wonder about their perspective on the issue. I have since noticed that bytestring is in fact not one of the core [libraries] that the CLC officially maintains. Is the CLC possibly interested in adopting bytestring, and/or to get involved in improving the maintenance situation in bytestring? This is just an idea – I don't actually know what power or resources the CLC could contribute here. Cheers, Simon [#52] https://github.com/haskell/bytestring/issues/52 [#140] https://github.com/haskell/bytestring/issues/140 [#142] https://github.com/haskell/bytestring/pull/142 [#182] https://github.com/haskell/bytestring/pull/182 [#196] https://github.com/haskell/bytestring/pull/196 [#198] https://github.com/haskell/bytestring/issues/198 [#17660] https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/issues/17660 [libraries] https://wiki.haskell.org/Library_submissions#The_Libraries