Herbert:

Heretofore I'd been treating filepath as owned by Neil Mitchell, but that statement does sound like he's handed it off to the libraries process, which would make it a core-libraries issue if he doesn't want to deal with it.

I'm copying him on this thread to get his opinion.

I've also copied Andy Gill, to see if he has any opinions on the state of who owns update responsibility for hpc itself.

Andy, Neil: Thoughts?

Thomas: Thanks for forcing this issue to attention.

-Edward

On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 2:14 PM, Herbert Valerio Riedel <hvriedel@gmail.com> wrote:

On 2014-09-28 at 19:40:25 +0200, Thomas Miedema wrote:

[...]

> Ok, final question: What about filepath and hpc? Their .cabal files list
> libraries@haskell.org as maintainer, which usually means the Core Libraries
> Committee. Should filepath be added to that list, and the maintainer for
> both filepath and hpc be set to the Core Libraries Committee? If not, who
> maintains filepath?

This is supposed to be an answer, but rather additional data-points:

As far as filepath is concerned:

http://community.haskell.org/~ndm/filepath/

states

| The library is now part of the core Haskell libraries, and since GHC
| 6.6.1 has been shipped with all major compilers. While I am the
| original author, changes are now made through the library submissions
| process.

as for Hpc, if you look at its changelog over at

http://git.haskell.org/packages/hpc.git/shortlog

it's been effectively maintained by GHC HQ for the last couple of
years...