[Haskell-cafe] Move on with the takeover of unix-compat [Re: Takeover request: unix-compat]

[Mitchell Rosen]

Thanks, I've sent an email to the admins.

On Mon, Feb 20, 2023, 2:14 PM Andreas Abel <andreas.abel at ifi.lmu.de> wrote:

> On 2023-02-15 21:46, Ben Franksen wrote:
> > Am 05.02.23 um 16:52 schrieb Mitchell Rosen:
> >> Hi all, I'd like to take over maintenance responsibility for the
> >> `unix-compat` package. Unfortunately, I've been unable to get in touch
> >> with
> >> the maintainer.
> >>
> >> I intend to make a release compatible with `unix-2.8`, and will be
> around
> >> to make subsequent bounds bumps and whatnot.
> >
> > Hi Mitchell, I made some contributions to unix-compat over the years and
> > found that the current maintainer, while sometimes a bit slow to respond
> > to PRs, is actually quite responsive when prompted via email. (Just a
> > data point, not to suggest you haven't tried that.)
>
> @Ben, this might have been so in the past, but recent evidence suggests
> otherwise.
>
> - I alerted Jacob of the situation over a month ago by email, here is
> the log for this:
>
>
>
> https://github.com/jacobstanley/unix-compat/issues/63#issuecomment-1386676351
>
> - His profile https://github.com/jacobstanley does not even include an
> email address.  I had to hunt down an email address by searching the web
> for possible matches.
>
> Because unix-compat is quite important for the Haskell ecosystem and (is
> already not maintained by the original authors), I think we should find
> a solution quickly and move on with the package takeover.
>
> It is anyway good if important packages have co-maintainers that can
> fill the gap should the current maintainer be unavailable for a longer
> period of time.
>
> @Mitchell:  I think the waiting time has now passed and you can contact
> the Hackage admins to add you to the maintainers of unix-compat on Hackage.
>
> Cheers,
> Andreas
>
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