[Haskell-cafe] Re: Handling absent maintainers

[Jonas Almström Duregård]

> I had been in contact with the maintainer of the
> package who has prepared a version 0.5 and was waiting for them to
> upload it so that I could use it as a dependency, but I haven't heard
> from them in a week or so. I'll try emailing them again, and as soon
> as 0.5 is on hackage I will go ahead with my upload.

I can upload a working .4 version of th-lift if needed, but I guess it
might be undesirable to depend on it if 0.5 changes the API.

I'll have a look at your version and see if I can merge my additions into it.

For now, perhaps somebody should re-upload the current version of
src-meta with the correct dependencies (TH<2.4)?

2010/8/17 Ben Millwood <haskell at benmachine.co.uk>:
> 2010/8/17 Jonas Almström Duregård <jonas.duregard at gmail.com>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Has there been any progress with this package? Like you I have also
>> tried to contact Matt and like you I have ended up making my own
>> version of src-meta :). When someone assumes maintainership of this
>> package I would like to discuss integrating some additions I made to
>> the Translation module.
>>
>> /Jonas
>>
>
> Hi Jonas,
>
> Sorry about the delay. In my version of haskell-src-meta I basically
> replaced the entire Language.Haskell.TH.Instances.Lift module with
> derivations from the th-lift package whose latest version currently
> doesn't build [1]. I had been in contact with the maintainer of the
> package who has prepared a version 0.5 and was waiting for them to
> upload it so that I could use it as a dependency, but I haven't heard
> from them in a week or so. I'll try emailing them again, and as soon
> as 0.5 is on hackage I will go ahead with my upload.
>
> I suppose since there's no reason why I deserve maintainership more
> than you you could just go ahead and upload your version instead. You
> can see exactly what I've done at my github repository [2].
>
> Yours,
> Ben Millwood
>
> [1] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/th-lift-0.4
> [2] http://github.com/benmachine/haskell-src-meta
>