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

Mario Blažević mblazevic at stilo.com
Thu Mar 2 22:15:20 UTC 2017


I'm willing to take over the maintenance of frisby, as I already have 
some experience with parser combinator libraries.

On 2017-02-28 12:18 PM, Christopher Done 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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