[Haskell-cafe] Package Takeover: `toml`

[Emily Pillmore]

Tom,

I have been eyeing a remake of this package for a long time for some of my projects. To be clear: there is no fire that needs to be put out, but I do have a need. The package has been out of commission for 7 years, and there are certainly no relevant downstream dependencies at this point. Do you have a source repository or existing code that I could see or make use of in the interim period between now and a release?

I'm genuinely surprised there was someone else made maintainer of the package without a public takeover. When/how did this happen? Did I miss the takeover announcement? Carter and I were looking into this in February of last year, and the need arose again, so I brought it up today.

Thanks,

E

On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 12:09 AM, < amindfv at mailbox.org > wrote:

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> On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 11:43:14PM -0500, Carter Schonwald wrote:
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>> Are you talking about tomland ??
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> No, I'm talking about https:/ / hackage. haskell. org/ package/ toml (
> https://hackage.haskell.org/package/toml ).
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>> There’s no GitHub url on the toml package from 2014 ...
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>> 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).
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>> Can you share the dev repo?
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>> 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?
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>> 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.
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> 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.
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> If there really is a burning need, I'm still around. Otherwise I'm feeling
> a bit duped.
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> Tom
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>> If you still have any residual concerns, emily and I are happy to hop on a
>> video chat to solve worries therof.
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>> Cheers!
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>> -Carter
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>> On Thu, Mar 11 , 2021 at 11:15 PM amindfv@ mailbox. org (
>> amindfv at mailbox.org ) < amindfv@ mailbox. org ( amindfv at mailbox.org ) >
>> wrote:
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>>> 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.
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>>> Thanks,
>>> Tom
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>>> On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 10:36:27PM -0500, Carter Schonwald wrote:
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>>>> If you’re the maintainer of
>>>> https:/ / hackage. haskell. org/ package/ toml (
>>>> https://hackage.haskell.org/package/toml ) could you give emily
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>>> maintainer /
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>>>> upload perms ? It really needs a new lead :) 2014 is a long time ago
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>>>> (I co wrote the email to spiros way back when. Any progress on this would
>>>> be great)
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>>>> On Thu, Mar 11 , 2021 at 10:05 PM amindfv--- via Haskell-Cafe < haskell-cafe@
>>>> haskell. org ( haskell-cafe at haskell.org ) > wrote:
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>>>>> On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 02:13:12AM +0000, Emily Pillmore wrote:
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>>>>>> To whom it may concern,
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>>>>>> I'd like to take over maintenance of the package `toml`. I have a
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>>>>> burning need. I tried to contact Spiros a year ago, but no response
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>>>>> come. The last release was 2017, and it's safe to say the package is
>>>>> totally abandoned. My hackage user is topos.
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>>>>> Hi, I'm a maintainer of `toml`. What do you need?
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>>>>> 
>>>>> Tom
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