Taking a step back

[Augustsson, Lennart]

Johan,

Thank you for your hard work maintaining several much used and very essential packages.
I’m sad to see you leave as the maintainer, but I understand your sentiment.

 -- Lennart

From: Libraries [mailto:libraries-bounces at haskell.org] On Behalf Of Johan Tibell
Sent: 20 October 2015 14:59
To: ghc-devs at haskell.org; Haskell Libraries; cabal-devel at haskell.org
Subject: Taking a step back

Friends,

I'm taking a step back from day-to-day library work.

There are two main reasons I use Haskell: on one hand I find writing Haskell educational and fun. On the other I hope to make it a viable alternative to existing mainstream languages. With recent changes to our core libraries, and the general direction these are moving in, I believe we're moving away from becoming a viable alternative to those mainstream languages.

This has some practical implications for how I spend my Haskell hacking time. Much of what I do is maintaining and working on libraries that are needed for real world usage, but that aren't that interesting to work on. I've lost the motivation to work on these.

I've decided to take a step back from the core maintenance work on cabal, network, containers, and a few others* starting now. I've already found replacement maintainers for these.

I still plan to hack on random side projects, including GHC, and to continue coming to Haskell events and conference, just with a shorter bug backlog to worry about. :)

-- Johan Tibell

* For now I will still hack on unordered-containers and ekg, as there are some things I'd like to experiment with there.

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