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

[Mitchell Rosen]

No word from hackage-admin at haskell.org after 13 days. I'm not sure anyone
is listening. :/

On Tue, Feb 21, 2023 at 12:05 AM Mitchell Rosen <mitchellwrosen at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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