Package takeover request for rapid

[Gershom B]

Ok. You've now been added as a hackage maintainer for rapid.

Cheers,
Gershom

On Wed, May 18, 2022 at 3:47 AM Markus Läll <markus.l2ll at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> it's now been two weeks, would it be ok to continue?
>
> I've created an organization here https://github.com/haskell-rapid/ so
> it would be easy to add more maintainers, and added an issue tracker as
> well (forks don't have one by default).
>
> I did contact github and cited this thread and the takeover process
> but since I have no legal relation to the deceased then they didn't
> want to move the repository. But I actually think it's fine the way it is.
>
> I also set master branch to where the upstream master is and moved the
> dependency bounds to the dev branch for the time being.
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 20, 2022, 13:12 Brandon Allbery <allbery.b at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Has anyone asked Github forhelp? I'd imagine they have some way to
>> migrate repositories in this case by now.
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 8:04 AM Andreas Abel <andreas.abel at ifi.lmu.de> wrote:
>> >
>> >  > By default I'd maintain it here: https://github.com/eyeinsky/rapid.
>> >
>> > At the least, this would need an issue tracker...
>> >
>> >  > Are there any other options (a github organization perhaps)?
>> >
>> > Personally, I prefer maintaining third-party packages on github
>> > organizations (see e.g. https://github.com/blaze-builder ).  It is
>> > easier to co-maintain and to install new maintainers.
>> >
>> > Github also offers transfer of repositories, but this has to be done by
>> > the owner.  Unfortunately, since Ertugrul passed away, it might be
>> > difficult to transfer the whole repository (with issues etc.).
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> > Andreas
>> >
>> > On 2022-04-19 16:01, Markus Läll wrote:
>> > > Hi Andreas,
>> > >
>> > > Yup, let's wait the two weeks.
>> > >
>> > > By default I'd maintain it here: https://github.com/eyeinsky/rapid.
>> > > Are there any other options (a github organization perhaps)?
>> > >
>> > > On Tue, Apr 19, 2022 at 3:53 PM Andreas Abel <andreas.abel at ifi.lmu.de> wrote:
>> > >>
>> > >> Hello Markus,
>> > >>
>> > >> thanks for the initiative!
>> > >>
>> > >> The takeover is probably fine.  It might be contested by other
>> > >> applicants, but there aren't really any stakeholders on the source code
>> > >> of rapid.  As far as github tells me, the code was single-handedly
>> > >> written by the now passed-away author.
>> > >>
>> > >> Maybe we should wait the suggested 2 weeks for any contestants before we
>> > >> finalize the takeover.
>> > >>
>> > >> You will need help to get added to
>> > >>
>> > >>     https://hackage.haskell.org/package/rapid/maintainers/
>> > >>
>> > >> by one of the hackage admins (CCed).
>> > >>
>> > >> You would likely have to move the code to another github account, would you?
>> > >>
>> > >> Cheers,
>> > >> Andreas (in my role as a hackage trustee)
>> > >>
>> > >> P.S.: I bumped the base-bound of rapid on hackage to ease building with
>> > >> newer GHCs.
>> > >>
>> > >> On 2022-04-19 14:15, Markus Läll wrote:
>> > >>> Hi
>> > >>>
>> > >>> I would like to take over https://hackage.haskell.org/package/rapid
>> > >>>
>> > >>> The author of the package Ertugrul Söylemez, once an active member of
>> > >>> the community perhaps best known for netwire, passed away in 2018. [1]
>> > >>> The work required for the package thus far, and for which I've kept a
>> > >>> fork for, is to bump version bounds as GHCs progress.
>> > >>>
>> > >>> [1] https://github.com/esoeylemez/rapid/pull/2#issuecomment-427065739
>> > >>>
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
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