[Haskell-cafe] Package Takeover: `toml`

[amindfv at mailbox.org]

On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 11:43:14PM -0500, Carter Schonwald wrote:
> Are you talking about tomland ??
> 

No, I'm talking about https://hackage.haskell.org/package/toml .

> There’s no GitHub url on the toml package from 2014 ...
> 
> I think the main priority here is having a canonically good toml lib for
> the community, in a good name space, That meets our needs robustly (I think
> emily has some interesting AND WORTHY uses in mind).
> 
> Can you share the dev repo?
> 
> To be clear: this is in the context hackage is a public commons and its
> name space is a resource. Do you have any immediate plans/needs for that
> specific package name?
> 
> If not, we promise to give some excellent code a great home in the toml
> name space if you hand it over.  Everyone will be happy and joyous at the
> resulting work that emily will facilitate. And dogs will dance in the
> streets and children will smile.

Respectfully, this conversation started because of the claim "I have a burning need." I actually cancelled a plan I had tonight because I wanted to be sure I could be responsive if there was some system going down because of e.g. an outdated set of dependencies. Now the discussion is about how "toml" is a nice name and there are interesting ideas for as-yet unwritten code.

If there really is a burning need, I'm still around. Otherwise I'm feeling a bit duped.

Tom

> 
> If you still have any residual concerns, emily and I are happy to hop on a
> video chat to solve worries therof.
> 
> Cheers!
> 
> -Carter
> 
> 
> On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 11:15 PM amindfv at mailbox.org <amindfv at mailbox.org>
> wrote:
> 
> > I'm in the middle of a package overhaul. If there's a burning need for
> > fixes please get in touch (off-list?) and let me know what you need.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Tom
> >
> > On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 10:36:27PM -0500, Carter Schonwald wrote:
> > > If you’re the maintainer of
> > > https://hackage.haskell.org/package/toml could you give emily
> > maintainer /
> > > upload perms ?  It really needs a new lead :) 2014 is a long time ago
> > >
> > > (I co wrote the email to spiros way back when. Any progress on this would
> > > be great)
> > >
> > > On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 10:05 PM amindfv--- via Haskell-Cafe <
> > > haskell-cafe at haskell.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 02:13:12AM +0000, Emily Pillmore wrote:
> > > > > To whom it may concern,
> > > > >
> > > > > I'd like to take over maintenance of the package `toml`.  I have a
> > > > burning need. I tried to contact Spiros  a year ago, but no response
> > has
> > > > come. The last release was 2017, and it's safe to say the package is
> > > > totally abandoned.  My hackage user is topos.
> > > >
> > > > Hi, I'm a maintainer of `toml`. What do you need?
> > > >
> > > > Tom
> > > >
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