[Haskell-cafe] Package takeover request for rapid

[Markus Läll]

Hi all,

it's now been two weeks, would it be ok to continue?

I've created an organization here https://github.com/haskell-rapid/ so
it would be easy to add more maintainers, and added an issue tracker as
well (forks don't have one by default).

I did contact github and cited this thread and the takeover process
but since I have no legal relation to the deceased then they didn't
want to move the repository. But I actually think it's fine the way it is.

I also set master branch to where the upstream master is and moved the
dependency bounds to the dev branch for the time being.


On Wed, Apr 20, 2022, 13:12 Brandon Allbery <allbery.b at gmail.com> wrote:

> Has anyone asked Github forhelp? I'd imagine they have some way to
> migrate repositories in this case by now.
>
> On Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 8:04 AM Andreas Abel <andreas.abel at ifi.lmu.de>
> wrote:
> >
> >  > By default I'd maintain it here: https://github.com/eyeinsky/rapid.
> >
> > At the least, this would need an issue tracker...
> >
> >  > Are there any other options (a github organization perhaps)?
> >
> > Personally, I prefer maintaining third-party packages on github
> > organizations (see e.g. https://github.com/blaze-builder ).  It is
> > easier to co-maintain and to install new maintainers.
> >
> > Github also offers transfer of repositories, but this has to be done by
> > the owner.  Unfortunately, since Ertugrul passed away, it might be
> > difficult to transfer the whole repository (with issues etc.).
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Andreas
> >
> > On 2022-04-19 16:01, Markus Läll wrote:
> > > 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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>
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