[Haskell-cafe] Fwd: taking over urlencoded

Adam Bergmark adam at bergmark.nl
Thu Jun 25 09:55:59 UTC 2015


Thank you for replying Philip,

The quickest way to transfer maintainership and resolve this would be for
you add a new maintainer here:
http://hackage.haskell.org/package/urlencoded/maintainers/edit

Francesco, what is your hackage username?

- Adam


On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 11:42 PM, Philip Weaver <philip.weaver at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I'm sorry, I haven't touched that package in years and don't have any
> interest in maintaining it. It looks like I became maintainer because it
> wasn't even in version control when I got my hands on it. Maybe someone
> else can take it over, or surely there is a better alternative out there
> somewhere?
>
> - Philip
>
> On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 2:35 PM, Adam Bergmark <adam at bergmark.nl> wrote:
>
>> CC'ing the maintainer since that was left out,
>>
>> Hi Philip, your package urlencoded does not build with network-2.6.
>> Please let us know whether you are able to upload a new version fixing this
>> issue, otherwise I intend to perform a non-maintainer upload in two weeks
>> with a package takeover to possibly follow after that.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Adam
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 11:14 PM, Adam Bergmark <adam at bergmark.nl> wrote:
>>
>>> Trustees can widen bounds or perform a non-maintainer upload if the
>>> regular maintainer is unavailable, as outlined here: Trustees can widen
>>> bounds as outlined here:
>>> https://gist.github.com/bergmark/76cafefb300546e9b90e#2-metadata-only-changes-relaxing-constraints
>>>
>>> I've opened an issue to track the progress:
>>> https://github.com/haskell-infra/hackage-trustees/issues/41
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Adam
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 11:11 PM, Dan Burton <danburton.email at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hackage admins can modify the dependency version constraints. I believe
>>>> that any other edits require a new release of the package.
>>>>
>>>> -- Dan Burton
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 10:38 AM, Francesco Gazzetta <
>>>> francygazz at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> The package urlencoded
>>>>> <https://hackage.haskell.org/package/urlencoded> wasn't updated since
>>>>> 2012 and needs a minor modification in the .cabal file.
>>>>>
>>>>> The author was contacted half an year ago, but he didn't respond, so
>>>>> -according to the instructions
>>>>> <https://wiki.haskell.org/Taking_over_a_package> on hackage- I state
>>>>> my intention to take over.
>>>>>
>>>>> Or, more simply, can an hackage admin just edit the cabal file?
>>>>>
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