Maintenance of text-icu (Bryan O'Sullivan)

[Simon Peyton Jones]

Bryan helpfully transferred ownership of 

* attoparsec
* criterion
* statistics
* double-conversion
* math-functions
* aeson
* text-icu
* mwc-random
* wreq
* critbit
* text-format

Haskell.org (as a holding mechanism) on 8 Dec.  This was a holding mechanism while we figure out who the new maintainers should be.  Ben Gamari knows about this -- ask him. But I think Bryan is now out of the critical path.

Simon

|  -----Original Message-----
|  From: Libraries <libraries-bounces at haskell.org> On Behalf Of Andreas
|  Abel
|  Sent: 11 January 2021 09:15
|  To: libraries at haskell.org
|  Subject: Re: Maintenance of text-icu (Bryan O'Sullivan)
|  
|   > 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://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgit
|  >> hub.com%2Fhaskell%2Ftext-
|  icu%2Fissues%2F30&data=04%7C01%7Csimonpj
|  >>
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|  >>
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|  >> mp;reserved=0
|  >>
|  >> with the last release in 2015
|  >>
|  >>
|  >>
|  https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhac
|  >> kage.haskell.org%2Fpackage%2Ftext-icu-
|  0.7.0.1&data=04%7C01%7Csimo
|  >>
|  npj%40microsoft.com%7Cd15004dda7fa42fb7d6908d8b6116cc8%7C72f988bf86f1
|  >>
|  41af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C637459533267394277%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZ
|  >>
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|  >> amp;reserved=0
|  >>
|  >> 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).
|  >
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