[Haskell-cafe] Future of package cryptonite

Mon Mar 15 00:13:38 UTC 2021

Hello,

We should also take care of "memory", "foundation" and "basement".
No action is taken for over a month to
https://github.com/haskell-foundation/foundation/pull/549

I cannot switch my main GHC version to 9.0 at this moment.

--Kazu

> Hello Haskell-cafe,
> 
> I'm writing to discuss the future of the package cryptonite, including scenarios where it would be acceptable to take over the package - by me & Kazu (in CC), who already maintains hs-tls, and anyone else who is qualified and willing.
> 
> The current maintainer Vincent (in CC) has been unresponsive to several attempts to contact him by email over the past several months, and is not responsive to PRs [1] on github. He is not entirely dormant, he has made a bugfix release in January, however otherwise he does not communicate.
> 
> Based on [2] and some other hearsay, I understand that Vincent has "quit Haskell". The other maintainer, Oliver Chéron has also explicitly said that he has quit Haskell [3].
> 
> We have also attempted to contact other members of the haskell-crypto github group, however only one of them responded to say they don't feel they can make decisions for cryptonite.
> 
> Under what time frame does the list think it would be acceptable to take over the package? And additionally, are there any other interested volunteers to co-maintain? (I do not want to be the main maintainer, due to more direct interests in other topics.)
> 
> Best,
> Ximin
> 
> [1] https://github.com/haskell-crypto/cryptonite
> [2] https://github.com/haskell-crypto/cryptonite/issues/330#issuecomment-670801628
> [3] https://github.com/haskell-crypto/cryptonite/pull/323#issuecomment-701885924
> 
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