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

[Christopher Done]

Two people offered to help on tryhaskell maintenance. They now have ssh
access and commit access! =)

On 14 March 2017 at 20:51, Gershom B <gershomb at gmail.com> wrote:

> On March 1, 2017 at 5:17:21 AM, Christopher Done (chrisdone at gmail.com)
> wrote:
> > Thank you everyone for the support! I've received a number of offers of
> > help which I'll be pursuing immediately. :-)
>
> Has anyone offered to help with tryhaskell.org? And, if not, would anyone
> like to? :-)
>
> There are a few tickets in the haskell repo pertaining to it, so it would
> probably be good to share the work around a bit to keep the machine humming
> in decent shape.
>
> Thanks for your work on all these resources for all these years Chris, and
> thanks for being proactive about transition of maintainership.
>
> Cheers,
> Gershom
>
> > On 28 February 2017 at 17:18, 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 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 , 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 and make it
> > > into a publishable package, please do so.
> > >
> > > The rest of my projects that are on Stackage are: labels
> > > , ace
> > > , ical
> > > , check-email
> > > , freenect
> > > , frisby
> > > , gd
> > > , ini
> > > , lucid
> > > , osdkeys
> > > , pdfinfo
> > > , present
> > > , pure-io
> > > , scrobble
> > > , shell-conduit
> > > , sourcemap
> > > , descriptive
> > > , wrap
> > > , path
> > > , weigh
> > > , haskell-docs
> > > , and
> > > 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 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 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 doesn’t really
> > > require any maintenance, but it’s also on its own DigitalOcean account
> now
> > > too.
> > > - 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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