[Haskell-cafe] Package takeover request for rapid

[Brandon Allbery]

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