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

[Bryan Richter]

Do we need to update the list of Hackage administrators? I know there's
been some turnover in the community in the last couple years.

On Mon, 6 Mar 2023 at 18:34, Mitchell Rosen <mitchellwrosen at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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