[Haskell-cafe] Intention to take over the pipes-text package

[Andrew Martin]

For what it's worth, I took over some of Michael Thompson's other libraries
(streaming and streaming-bytestring) about two years ago. He is no longer
active on GitHub and was not responsive to email at the time.

On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 7:00 PM Peter J. Jones via Haskell-Cafe <
haskell-cafe at haskell.org> wrote:

> (This is a re-post from October 6, 2020 since the original did not make
> it into the archive.)
>
> The pipes-text [1] package on Hackage hasn't been updated in about 4
> years and doesn't currently build due to outdated `build-depends'.
>
> Patches have been supplied to the GitHub [2] repository but none have
> been merged.  The last commit was on Dec 2, 2016.
>
> I have attempted to reach out to the author (Michael Thompson) to offer
> assistance and have not received any response.
>
> As per the instructions on the Haskell Wiki, I'm posting this message to
> signal my intent to take over the pipes-text package as a maintainer.  I
> have a working fork here [3].
>
> Michael, if you prefer to keep the package under your control I'm more
> than happy to help you manage the GitHub project and get some patches
> merged.  Otherwise I'll reach out to the Hackage administrators after a
> reasonable amount of time has passed.
>
> [1]: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/pipes-text
> [2]: https://github.com/michaelt/text-pipes
> [3]: https://github.com/pjones/pipes-text
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-Andrew Thaddeus Martin
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