<div dir="auto">All,<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The unix package, a core library, has been stalling. (just some examples, going back up to 6 years: [1] [2] [3] [4]).</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Previously, unix was maintained by HVR, a prolific maintainer and open source contributor of the Haskell ecosystem. His work to date has been invaluable for many of us today. However, recently, he's been increasingly unavailable, which happens and is perfectly understandable - life happens. But, the ecosystem cannot stall (eg [5], [6]) because of a single contributor, regardless of that contributor's merits or previous work.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Right now, we have many useful (and in some cases necessary for other work, e.g, for hackage-server 2.0) patches to unix which need to be acted on. Additionally, there are potential maintainers willing to do the work ([7], [8], [9], [10]).</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">On behalf of the CLC, which owns unix, I am announcing that the unix library will henceforth be under maintainership of the aforementioned individuals, who are all trusted and knowledgeable members of the community, looking to improve the library.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I appreciate everyone who has contributed code to unix, maintained unix in the past, and those who stepped forward to help maintain it going forward. I hope that these changes will help facilitate positive growth for the library and ultimately the community, as they have with other core libraries which have recently been given new supplies of maintainers.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">[1]: <a href="https://github.com/haskell/unix/pull/145" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://github.com/haskell/unix/pull/145</a></div><div dir="auto">[2]: <a href="https://github.com/haskell/unix/pull/21" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://github.com/haskell/unix/pull/21</a> </div><div dir="auto">[3]: <a href="https://github.com/haskell/unix/pull/110" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://github.com/haskell/unix/pull/110</a></div><div dir="auto">[4]: <a href="https://github.com/haskell/unix/pull/122" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://github.com/haskell/unix/pull/122</a></div><div dir="auto">[5]: <a href="https://github.com/haskell/zlib/pull/37">https://github.com/haskell/zlib/pull/37</a></div><div dir="auto">[6]: <a href="https://github.com/haskell/zlib/pull/39#issuecomment-774598088">https://github.com/haskell/zlib/pull/39#issuecomment-774598088</a></div><div dir="auto">[7]: <a href="https://github.com/hs-viktor" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://github.com/hs-viktor</a></div><div dir="auto">[8]: <a href="https://github.com/Bodigrim" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://github.com/Bodigrim</a></div><div dir="auto">[9]: <a href="https://github.com/emilypi" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://github.com/emilypi</a></div><div dir="auto">[10]: <a href="https://github.com/davean" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://github.com/davean</a></div></div>