<div dir="ltr">The huffman library (<a href="http://hackage.haskell.org/package/huffman" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://hackage.haskell.org/package/huffman</a>) is very <br>
useful, but unfortunately hasn't been maintained in several years and <br>
does not compile with new versions of the containers library. We are <br>
incorporating huffman encoding as part of the American Museum of Natural <br>
History's PCG project (<a href="https://github.com/amnh/pcg" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/amnh/pcg</a>). We have a locally <br>
"repaired" version of the huffman library that we have used in a <br>
prototype and would like to share the updates with the Haskell community.<br>
<br>Nine months ago I contacted Maxime Henrion, the listed maintainer of the <br>
huffman library, about a pull request to incorporate the changes or <br>
taking up maintainership responsibility, whatever they would prefer to <br>
update the library and share the huffman encoding library updates with <br>
the rest of the community. Unfortunately I didn't receive any response <br>
from them.<br><br>
Per the listed protocol for requesting maintainership of a hackage <br>
package if the current maintainer cannot be reached <br>
(<a href="https://wiki.haskell.org/Taking_over_a_package#If_you_cannot_contact_the_author.2Fmaintainer" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.haskell.org/Taking_over_a_package#If_you_cannot_contact_the_author.2Fmaintainer</a>), <br>
I'm letting the Haskell community know that I am quite interested in <br>
taking over maintainership of the huffman library. I intend to update <br>
the library to compile with new versions of GHC and updated versions of <br>
the containers package.<br>
<br>
~Alex Washburn, (recursion-ninja)</div>