[Haskell-cafe] New rss maintainer

[Sjoerd Visscher]

That's a great idea!

On Oct 21, 2011, at 5:34 PM, Vincent Hanquez wrote:

> On 10/20/2011 08:27 PM, Bas van Dijk wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I've a small patch[1] that updates the rss package to the latest
>> versions of its dependencies. (I'm trying to get the new
>> hackage-server to build on ghc-7.2.1)
>> 
>> However Bjorn Bringert told me he's no longer maintaining the package.
>> He asked me to ask you if there's already a new maintainer. If not,
>> does any one want to take over the package? Jeremy, maybe you?
>> 
>> Otherwise I could take it over. I probably won't make lots of changes
>> since I'm a bit swamped at the moment. Just updating it to the latest
>> versions.
> Perhaps, unless someone step up, it would be nice to move packages that have
> no maintainer anymore into a github organisation (haskell-janitors ?),
> where each package could have many owners and it's easy and simple to add/remove push rights there.
> 
> That could also be an obvious place to look, for newcomers, to get involved.
> 
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> Vincent
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