'temporary' takeover

[Andreas Abel]

+1.  I think adding trusted developers as co-maintainers for 
unmaintained packages should be a rather quick process.  After all, once 
something on hackage and others to depend on it, ownership has little 
value in comparision to the common good of the community...

On 23.07.2015 15:34, Michael Snoyman wrote:
> Big +1 from me.
>
> On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 2:06 AM Erik Hesselink <hesselink at gmail.com
> <mailto: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 <mailto: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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