random library: Request for Carter Tazio Schonwald (@cartazio) to step down as maintainer with immediate effect

[Gershom B]

I’ve reached out to a few members of the libraries committee directly to ask the committee to take charge and mediate this.

—Gershom
On Jun 3, 2020, 11:51 AM -0400, Roman Cheplyaka <roma at ro-che.info>, wrote:
> Hi Carter,
>
> random is a "public utility" library, and as such should be maintained by the community.
>
> A group of qualified engineers (which you were welcome to join) have carefully prepared a release, to which it sounds like you don't have any specific technical objections.
>
> Can you explain why they should not be able to make that release, or why you should be a gatekeeper of this process?
>
> I appreciate the difficulty of the situation in which the U.S. is right now, but to me, this is just another reason not to have a single person in charge of a core library.
>
> Roman
>
> On 03/06/2020 17.02, Profpatsch wrote:
> >
> > I posted this comment on the thread of
> > https://github.com/haskell/random/pull/62#issuecomment-638088258
> >
> > Since it was deleted and the comment thread locked by Carter,
> > I am escalating this request to the mailing list, where it cannot be
> > deleted.
> >
> > Profpatsch <notifications at github.com> writes:
> >
> > > @cartazio Please take even a fleeting look at https://github.com/idontgetoutmuch/random/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed, notice the amount of discussion and the timeline.
> > >
> > > This is the full-time work of a team of half a dozen of experts, probably breaching one man-year of effort, easily.
> > > It cannot just be discarded out of hand.
> > >
> > > I have been following the discussions (spread over mailinglists, issue trackers and elsewhere), and I propose you hand over maintainership of `random` as a base package.
> >
> > A parallel issue with relevant discussion can be found at
> > https://github.com/haskell/random/pull/61
> >
> > I am writing this email from my personal account, because I fear for
> > the health of the Haskell ecosystem, and I think Carter’s behaviour is
> > extremely detrimental to it.
> >
> > I think a lot of other people feel the same way, so I encourage you to
> > add your voice publicly.
> >
> > ~ Profpatsch
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