I always support using a GitHub organization, especially if the package is actually used. You can even make one just for the package. An organization can have multiple owners, providing redundancy if one of them leaves ... or dies. On Tue, Apr 19, 2022, 10:02 AM Markus Läll wrote:

Hi Andreas,

Yup, let's wait the two weeks.

By default I'd maintain it here: https://github.com/eyeinsky/rapid. Are there any other options (a github organization perhaps)?

On Tue, Apr 19, 2022 at 3:53 PM Andreas Abel wrote:

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Hello Markus,

thanks for the initiative!

The takeover is probably fine. It might be contested by other applicants, but there aren't really any stakeholders on the source code of rapid. As far as github tells me, the code was single-handedly written by the now passed-away author.

Maybe we should wait the suggested 2 weeks for any contestants before we finalize the takeover.

You will need help to get added to

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/rapid/maintainers/

by one of the hackage admins (CCed).

You would likely have to move the code to another github account, would

you?

...

Cheers, Andreas (in my role as a hackage trustee)

P.S.: I bumped the base-bound of rapid on hackage to ease building with newer GHCs.

On 2022-04-19 14:15, Markus Läll wrote:

...

Hi

I would like to take over https://hackage.haskell.org/package/rapid

The author of the package Ertugrul Söylemez, once an active member of the community perhaps best known for netwire, passed away in 2018. [1] The work required for the package thus far, and for which I've kept a fork for, is to bump version bounds as GHCs progress.

[1] https://github.com/esoeylemez/rapid/pull/2#issuecomment-427065739

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Has anyone asked Github forhelp? I'd imagine they have some way to migrate repositories in this case by now. On Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 8:04 AM Andreas Abel wrote:

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By default I'd maintain it here: https://github.com/eyeinsky/rapid.

At the least, this would need an issue tracker...

...

Are there any other options (a github organization perhaps)?

Personally, I prefer maintaining third-party packages on github organizations (see e.g. https://github.com/blaze-builder ). It is easier to co-maintain and to install new maintainers.

Github also offers transfer of repositories, but this has to be done by the owner. Unfortunately, since Ertugrul passed away, it might be difficult to transfer the whole repository (with issues etc.).

Cheers, Andreas

On 2022-04-19 16:01, Markus Läll wrote:

...

Hi Andreas,

Yup, let's wait the two weeks.

By default I'd maintain it here: https://github.com/eyeinsky/rapid. Are there any other options (a github organization perhaps)?

On Tue, Apr 19, 2022 at 3:53 PM Andreas Abel wrote:

...

Hello Markus,

thanks for the initiative!

The takeover is probably fine. It might be contested by other applicants, but there aren't really any stakeholders on the source code of rapid. As far as github tells me, the code was single-handedly written by the now passed-away author.

Maybe we should wait the suggested 2 weeks for any contestants before we finalize the takeover.

You will need help to get added to

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/rapid/maintainers/

by one of the hackage admins (CCed).

You would likely have to move the code to another github account, would you?

Cheers, Andreas (in my role as a hackage trustee)

P.S.: I bumped the base-bound of rapid on hackage to ease building with newer GHCs.

On 2022-04-19 14:15, Markus Läll wrote:

...

Hi

I would like to take over https://hackage.haskell.org/package/rapid

The author of the package Ertugrul Söylemez, once an active member of the community perhaps best known for netwire, passed away in 2018. [1] The work required for the package thus far, and for which I've kept a fork for, is to bump version bounds as GHCs progress.

[1] https://github.com/esoeylemez/rapid/pull/2#issuecomment-427065739

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Ok. You've now been added as a hackage maintainer for rapid. Cheers, Gershom On Wed, May 18, 2022 at 3:47 AM Markus Läll wrote:

Hi all,

it's now been two weeks, would it be ok to continue?

I've created an organization here https://github.com/haskell-rapid/ so it would be easy to add more maintainers, and added an issue tracker as well (forks don't have one by default).

I did contact github and cited this thread and the takeover process but since I have no legal relation to the deceased then they didn't want to move the repository. But I actually think it's fine the way it is.

I also set master branch to where the upstream master is and moved the dependency bounds to the dev branch for the time being.

On Wed, Apr 20, 2022, 13:12 Brandon Allbery wrote:

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Has anyone asked Github forhelp? I'd imagine they have some way to migrate repositories in this case by now.

On Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 8:04 AM Andreas Abel wrote:

...

...

By default I'd maintain it here: https://github.com/eyeinsky/rapid.

At the least, this would need an issue tracker...

...

Are there any other options (a github organization perhaps)?

Personally, I prefer maintaining third-party packages on github organizations (see e.g. https://github.com/blaze-builder ). It is easier to co-maintain and to install new maintainers.

Github also offers transfer of repositories, but this has to be done by the owner. Unfortunately, since Ertugrul passed away, it might be difficult to transfer the whole repository (with issues etc.).

Cheers, Andreas

On 2022-04-19 16:01, Markus Läll wrote:

...

Hi Andreas,

Yup, let's wait the two weeks.

By default I'd maintain it here: https://github.com/eyeinsky/rapid. Are there any other options (a github organization perhaps)?

On Tue, Apr 19, 2022 at 3:53 PM Andreas Abel wrote:

...

Hello Markus,

thanks for the initiative!

The takeover is probably fine. It might be contested by other applicants, but there aren't really any stakeholders on the source code of rapid. As far as github tells me, the code was single-handedly written by the now passed-away author.

Maybe we should wait the suggested 2 weeks for any contestants before we finalize the takeover.

You will need help to get added to

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/rapid/maintainers/

by one of the hackage admins (CCed).

You would likely have to move the code to another github account, would you?

Cheers, Andreas (in my role as a hackage trustee)

P.S.: I bumped the base-bound of rapid on hackage to ease building with newer GHCs.

On 2022-04-19 14:15, Markus Läll wrote:

...

Hi

I would like to take over https://hackage.haskell.org/package/rapid

The author of the package Ertugrul Söylemez, once an active member of the community perhaps best known for netwire, passed away in 2018. [1] The work required for the package thus far, and for which I've kept a fork for, is to bump version bounds as GHCs progress.

[1] https://github.com/esoeylemez/rapid/pull/2#issuecomment-427065739

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