[Haskell-cafe] Package takeover request for rapid

[Markus Läll]

Hi Andreas,

Yup, let's wait the two weeks.

By default I'd maintain it here: https://github.com/eyeinsky/rapid.
Are there any other options (a github organization perhaps)?

On Tue, Apr 19, 2022 at 3:53 PM Andreas Abel <andreas.abel at ifi.lmu.de> wrote:
>
> Hello Markus,
>
> thanks for the initiative!
>
> The takeover is probably fine.  It might be contested by other
> applicants, but there aren't really any stakeholders on the source code
> of rapid.  As far as github tells me, the code was single-handedly
> written by the now passed-away author.
>
> Maybe we should wait the suggested 2 weeks for any contestants before we
> finalize the takeover.
>
> You will need help to get added to
>
>    https://hackage.haskell.org/package/rapid/maintainers/
>
> by one of the hackage admins (CCed).
>
> You would likely have to move the code to another github account, would you?
>
> Cheers,
> Andreas (in my role as a hackage trustee)
>
> P.S.: I bumped the base-bound of rapid on hackage to ease building with
> newer GHCs.
>
> On 2022-04-19 14:15, Markus Läll wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I would like to take over https://hackage.haskell.org/package/rapid
> >
> > The author of the package Ertugrul Söylemez, once an active member of
> > the community perhaps best known for netwire, passed away in 2018. [1]
> > The work required for the package thus far, and for which I've kept a
> > fork for, is to bump version bounds as GHCs progress.
> >
> > [1] https://github.com/esoeylemez/rapid/pull/2#issuecomment-427065739
> >



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Markus Läll