[Haskell-cafe] Looking for maintainers or comaintainers on my Haskell projects

Sibi sibi at psibi.in
Wed Mar 1 03:16:03 UTC 2017


Thanks for your effort. I'm interested in co-maintaining "shell-conduit"
and "check-email".

Regards,
Sibi

On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 10:48 PM, Christopher Done <chrisdone at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> The short version is: I’ve been battling RSI in my fingers for some years.
> I’m doing various things to mitigate that problem, but I have very limited
> finger bandwidth these days; enough to work at my usual pace at my job, but
> not much in the evenings and weekends, and so I can’t manage to do much on
> my hobby projects. I’m also not as motivated these days to work on my set
> of open source projects, and am turning my attention to different things.
> It’s not great, but that’s life.
>
> I don’t think that the users of my packages are getting the best
> maintainership deal. Rather than be “the absentee maintainer”, I’d prefer a
> straight-forward transition of maintainership or ownership to someone who
> can put the right energy and time in.
>
> In terms of packages, there are really two that have a significant
> maintenance burden and users aren’t being served very well:
>
>    - HIndent <https://github.com/chrisdone/hindent> has a significant
>    amount of issues opened for it regularly, and many of them require
>    discussion and debate. If someone would like to become a co-maintainer, let
>    me know. It may (eventually) make sense to move it to a more general GitHub
>    organization like commercialhaskell or haskell.
>    - Intero <https://github.com/commercialhaskell/intero/issues>, which
>    seems to have been a success, has a pretty big maintenance burden on “this
>    doesn’t work” kind of issues which require investigation. There’s some
>    Emacs Lisp work to do on it, and some Haskell work on the intero binary,
>    and a whole lot of platform-specific problems or tooling not working
>    together. On the other hand people really like this project, and there’s a
>    lot of tooling potential.
>
> If you want to take xeno <https://github.com/chrisdone/xeno> and make it
> into a publishable package, please do so.
>
> The rest of my projects that are on Stackage are: labels
> <https://hackage.haskell.org/package/labels>, ace
> <https://hackage.haskell.org/package/ace>, ical
> <https://hackage.haskell.org/package/ical>, check-email
> <https://hackage.haskell.org/package/check-email>, freenect
> <https://hackage.haskell.org/package/freenect>, frisby
> <https://hackage.haskell.org/package/frisby>, gd
> <https://hackage.haskell.org/package/gd>, ini
> <https://hackage.haskell.org/package/ini>, lucid
> <https://hackage.haskell.org/package/lucid>, osdkeys
> <https://hackage.haskell.org/package/osdkeys>, pdfinfo
> <https://hackage.haskell.org/package/pdfinfo>, present
> <https://hackage.haskell.org/package/present>, pure-io
> <https://hackage.haskell.org/package/pure-io>, scrobble
> <https://hackage.haskell.org/package/scrobble>, shell-conduit
> <https://hackage.haskell.org/package/shell-conduit>, sourcemap
> <https://hackage.haskell.org/package/sourcemap>, descriptive
> <https://hackage.haskell.org/package/descriptive>, wrap
> <https://hackage.haskell.org/package/wrap>, path
> <https://hackage.haskell.org/package/path>, weigh
> <https://hackage.haskell.org/package/weigh>, haskell-docs
> <https://hackage.haskell.org/package/haskell-docs>, and
> structured-haskell-mode
> <https://hackage.haskell.org/package/structured-haskell-mode>. If you’re
> interested in taking over or co-maintaining any of them, let me know. Some
> are interesting, others are boring, some are trivial.
>
> I have other packages on Hackage, but they’re mostly dead or experiments
> that don’t need maintenance anyway.
>
> I’ve started the process of adding or changing maintainers on my public
> services:
>
>    - Haskell News <https://github.com/haskellnews> is now a GitHub
>    organization. Luke Murphy is a co-owner, and has full access to the
>    DigitalOcean account that is running the service. So if you want to work on
>    that project, I’m not in the way.
>    - lpaste <https://github.com/lpaste/lpaste> has been moved to its own
>    DigitalOcean account too. If anyone is interested in taking over the
>    project or co-running it, let me know.
>    - tryhaskell <https://github.com/chrisdone/tryhaskell> doesn’t really
>    require any maintenance, but it’s also on its own DigitalOcean account now
>    too.
>    - IRCBrowse <https://github.com/chrisdone/ircbrowse> is now on its own
>    DigitalOcean account too. It requires maintenance once in a while. If
>    anyone is interested in taking over the project or co-running it, let me
>    know.
>
> Cheers!
>>
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