Maintenance of text-icu (Bryan O'Sullivan)

[Andreas Abel]

Thanks Simon, for the update!  (I hope it is nothing bad.)

@Ben: Could you set us up?
(And would that include write permissions on bos/text-icu or a new repo?)

On 2021-01-11 10:39, Simon Peyton Jones wrote:
> 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
> |  >>
> |  sb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%
> |  >>
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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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