[Haskell-cafe] Package Takeover: `toml`

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This is being amicably resolved off-list.

Tom

On Sat, Mar 13, 2021 at 07:55:41PM +0300, Roman wrote:
> Emily,
> 
> 
> > Carter and I were looking into this in February of last year, and the need
> > arose again, so I brought it up today.
> >
> 
> 
> > 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.
> >
> 
> It's not a "need" (not a technical one at least), it's a desire to control
> a certain package name. Even if there was no responsive maintainer, I'd
> argue that if anything that name should be given to Kowainik who already
> support the de facto standard Haskell library for dealing with TOML, 'cause
> their package fits your criteria (I absolutely do not agree with that
> criteria, but that's irrelevant)
> 
> hackage names are a community resource, and they deserve to be thought
> > through carefully
> >
> 
> much better than your yet-to-be-written library (despite the fact that
> you'll most certainly produce a great library). If "Hackage real-estate" is
> that "precious", as you put it, it shouldn't be given away on the basis of
> a promise to write a standard library, there should be actual code to
> compare.
> 
> I'm genuinely surprised there was someone else made maintainer of the
> > package without a public takeover. When/how did this happen?
> >
> 
> I do not feel like the author of a library takes the responsibility to
> inform the public about giving someone permissions to their own library by
> uploading it to Hackage. There *should* be some package metadata that
> specifies a way to contact the maintainer, but that issue is now fixed.
> 
> сб, 13 мар. 2021 г. в 18:07, Bertram Felgenhauer via Haskell-Cafe <
> haskell-cafe at haskell.org>:
> 
> > I wrote:
> > >     https://hackage.haskell.org/package/toml/maintainers/
> > >
> > > Still, maybe it would help if this feature was more prominent?
> >
> > See also https://github.com/haskell/hackage-server/issues/918
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Bertram
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