Maintenance of text-icu (Bryan O'Sullivan)

[Andreas Abel]

 > I think it is generally best to have more than one
 > active maintainer for a mature package.

Agreed.

The easiest would be that Bryan O'Sullivan, if he surfaces again, gives 
us write access to his bos/text-icu repo on github (for the continuity 
of issues/PRs---I don't think one can fork a repo including issues/PRs), 
and upload rights on hackage.

On 2021-01-10 22:36, Viktor Dukhovni wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 09:27:01PM +0100, Andreas Abel wrote:
> 
>> Package text-icu (Bryan O'Sullivan) seems to be unmaintained since 2017
>>
>>     https://github.com/haskell/text-icu/issues/30
>>
>> with the last release in 2015
>>
>>     https://hackage.haskell.org/package/text-icu-0.7.0.1
>>
>> Unfortunately, the latest release is incompatible with ICU 68.
>>
>> Has anyone heard from Bryan recently?  I mean, he is a Haskell
>> celebrity...  His last activity on github.com was in August 2017.
>>
>> Anyone interested in maintaining this package?
> 
> If it turns out that Brian is no longer going be looking after the
> project, or would be happy to share the burden, I'd be interested in
> co-maintaining it.  I think it is generally best to have more than one
> active maintainer for a mature package.
> 
> My interest in this space is largely via DNS and IDNA2008, where for my
> own projects I'm maintaining a private fork of idna-hs (abandoned by its
> original maintainer), which depends on text-icu via stringprep (though
> perhaps only needed for IDNA2003, which should no longer be used).
>