[Haskell-cafe] Unmaintained packages and hackage upload rights

[Carter Schonwald]

i second erik's sentiment.


On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 5:22 PM, Erik de Castro Lopo
<mle+hs at mega-nerd.com>wrote:

> Roman Cheplyaka wrote:
>
> > In the recent past I took over two unmaintained packages: bert and
> > ansi-terminal. I don't mind spending a bit of time to keep our ecosystem
> > from bitrotting.
> >
> > However, both times I had to go through an irritating procedure of
> > contacting hackage admins, asking them to grant me upload rights,
> > explaining why the maintainers can't do that themselves and why I think
> > the packages are abandoned.
> >
> > Instead of a feeling that I'm doing something good and useful, I have
> > a feeling that I'm bothering people with my own problems. It also adds
> > unnecessary latency to my work.
> >
> > So from now on I'll simply fork the packages I need to fix.
> >
> > Others are of course welcome to use my forks.
> >
> > (This email was prompted by regex-tdfa which doesn't build on GHC 7.8,
> > and whose maintainer hasn't responded. My fork is at
> > http://hackage.haskell.org/package/regex-tdfa-rc .)
>
> Roman,
>
> I really can understand why you did this; I am frustrated by some of
> the same issues. However, I think if any significant number of people
> did this, the results could easily be disasterous.
>
> Erik
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