'temporary' takeover

Michael Snoyman michael at snoyman.com
Thu Jul 23 13:34:39 UTC 2015


Big +1 from me.

On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 2:06 AM Erik Hesselink <hesselink at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Mateusz,
>
> Sounds good. I don't think Max is active anymore [1] and many of his
> other packages have been taken over in the past years. Also given that
> Roman also stated his intention to take over the package more than a
> year ago, I think it's no problem to transfer maintainership to you on
> Monday (even though the normal term is at least 2-6 weeks). It also
> seems that this is not blocking the move back to temporary, since
> there's currently no difference between the two packages.
>
> I've created an issue on the hackage trustee tracker [2] to track the
> takeover.
>
> Regards,
>
> Erik
>
> [1] https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/libraries/2015-April/025570.html
> [2] https://github.com/haskell-infra/hackage-trustees/issues/43
>
> On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 12:06 PM, Mateusz Kowalczyk
> <fuuzetsu at fuuzetsu.co.uk> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm looking to take over the ‘temporary’ package. This is to address the
> > issue of any patches/fixes into ‘temporary’ not being merged in a timely
> > manner[1]. This caused Roman Cheplyaka to create a fork package,
> > ‘temporary-rc’. It's less than ideal to have some packages use temporary
> > and others use temporary-rc (PackageImports needed…) so this is in
> > attempt to bring back temporary as the one true package to use here and
> > let the fork fall into obscurity, preferably deprecated.
> >
> > The main user of temporary-rc is the popular tasty package which is
> > Roman's. If me/him/us both/someone (reliable/available) can take over
> > temporary, he seems to be willing to go back to using that instead of
> > the fork[2].
> >
> > CCing the current maintainer. I think until Monday (27th) is a fair
> > notice though I point out more time elapsed on [1] without a reply.
> >
> > [1]: http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/libraries/2014-May/022958.html
> > [2]: https://github.com/feuerbach/temporary/issues/1
> >
> > --
> > Mateusz K.
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