<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">Hello,</span><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">- Few months ago Andrew Martin opened PR in `snappy`: <a href="https://github.com/bos/snappy/pull/10" class="">https://github.com/bos/snappy/pull/10</a> </div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">- The package is either direct or transient dependency for `tensorflow`, `kafka-client` and few more packages.</div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">- While forks maintenance is a well-known practice it creates burden on maintainers.</div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">- Moreover, I cannot easily fix cabal build for tensorflow for different GHC versions.</div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Note for Bryan: I haven’t forked `snappy` so there will be no name clashes during the transfer.</div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">I would like to become a maintainer for `snappy` package and keep it up-to-date at least for a next few years.</div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">I have already followed that procedure a few years ago for `blaze-textual` package. (Recently I discovered a flaw in my maintenance setup and fixed it.)</div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">So my intent is to resolve recent PRs and to keep supporting for newer compiler versions and build tools.</div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Please consider this message as a step 2 in take-over procedure: <a href="https://wiki.haskell.org/Taking_over_a_package" class="">https://wiki.haskell.org/Taking_over_a_package</a> </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Kind Regards,</div><div class="">Andrey Prokopenko</div></body></html>