[Haskell-cafe] Package takeover request for rapid

[Andreas Abel]

 > 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 <andreas.abel at ifi.lmu.de> 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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