Taking over maintainership of cpphs, HaXml, hscolour, and polyparse

[amindfv at gmail.com]

There's been a spike in package takeover attempts lately, many for packages by well-known members of the community - is there some reason they're all happening?

Tom

> El 30 oct 2018, a las 13:11, Malcolm Wallace via Libraries <libraries at haskell.org> escribió:
> 
> I am afraid I have been rather lax at maintaining these packages recently, for which I apologise.  Since darcs.haskell.org closed, it has been difficult to publish updates.  I am in the process of converting the darcs repositories into git, but I have hit a roadblock in finding a host for these.  Github for instance is not able to accept any upload from my version of git (an ancient 1.7.7.5 on MacOS 10.7), because my machine's version of OpenSSL is too old.  I have tried various ways to build a newer git, but am so far continuing to fail.
> 
> I may go back to keeping the repos in darcs, and find some simple webhosting instead.
> 
> Regards,
>    Malcolm
> 
>> On 30 Oct 2018, at 15:59, Herbert Valerio Riedel wrote:
>> 
>> Peter,
>> 
>> On 2018-10-30 at 16:50:59 +0100, Peter Simons wrote:
>> 
>> [...]
>> 
>>> I tried to contact Malcolm on 2018-09-24 via e-mail. Others have also
>>> tried to reach him through WhatsApp other channels. Unfortunately,
>>> no-one has received a response, which is why we decided to go through
>>> with this process.
>> 
>> It's not completely accurate that *nobody* has received a response: I
>> have actually received a response from Malcolm last week in order to
>> coordinate how to have the Hackage Trustees handle the situation; and I
>> intend to proceed with performing the NMUs during this week.
>> 
>> 
>> Herbert
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