[HOpenGL] Hello HOpenGL

[Jason Dagit]

On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 2:13 PM, Balazs Komuves <bkomuves at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Someone needs to be the active maintainer.  I asked advice from a few
>> people in the open source community and their advice was to just take
>> over.  I'm sorry that part was not more democratic.  Would you like to
>> be the maintainer?  I mean that sincerely.  I don't need to be the
>> maintainer, but I do want to see the library continue and improve.  I
>> plan to hand the reigns over in the future and I believe you know
>> opengl and the haskell opengl well enough to fill that role.
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> I'm not against you being the maintainer, and I think I already stated
> in a private mail that I do not wish to be the maintainer (maybe I would
> volunteer to be a co-maintainer, but I don't have time to do even that
> at the moment). However, I'm involved with Haskell and OpenGL
> deeply enough that I care a lot about what happens, and I want to
> ensure that there is at minimum a public discussion about issues on
> which I disagree with the maintainer.
>
> But seriously, we should just focus on the actual issues instead of
> politics.
>
> For example I think I listed more than 5 independent reasons for having
> a different package (instead of just a new version) in case of
> large/incompatible changes. Also I'm against dropping OpenGL 2.0
> support, though that's a lesser problem if the new bindings is a
> different package. I don't remember getting any reply on that.

My plan was to reply to those issues in a later email.  I should have
said so but I forgot to mention it in my email.  Sorry!

I am thinking about those things and I was even discussing some of the
options over lunch today with one of my co-workers.  It's possibly
something worth asking for advice about on Haskell-Cafe where there is
a wider audience.

So, in other words, I heard you and I'm not sure yet what I want to
say.  To me the more urgent issue is the improvement work and the
consensus for that.  How we package it can be deferred, at least at
the time being.

I promise to bring it up again and try for consensus before posting
new releases to hackage that are more than simply bug fixes.

Jason