On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 5:04 PM, Peter Simons <simons@cryp.to> wrote:
Hi Evangelos,
> I can see that three out of the five packages you list were last > updated in May and are no longer marked out-of-date. This means that > for those three packages at least, there's no reason for disowning.
right, the ones that are still out-of-date (and have been for 4 months) are:
haskell-funcmp http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=18122 haskell-hsdns http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=17745
The other three packages I mentioned have been updated. Still, it's interesting to compare the times of the update on Hackage and on AUR:
haskell-hopenssl http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=17743
Updated on Hackage: 2 Mar 2010 Updated on AUR: 22 May 2010
haskell-hsemail http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=17746
Updated on Hackage: 25 Mar 2010 Updated on AUR: 30 May 2010
haskell-hsyslog http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=17751
Updated on Hackage: 26 Feb 2010 Updated on AUR: 22 May 2010
This looks to me like the minimum time frame in which an AUR package gets updated by Don Stewart is 2 months or more. I don't think that's particularly impressive. IMHO, the Arch Linux team should re-consider whether it's a wise choice to grant one person a monopoly on all Haskell-related packages on AUR.
> Also, you mention that you were referred to the Arch-Haskell mailing > list. If you posted there, can you provide a link to your opening > message? I'd be interested to see what replies you got.
At <http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/arch-haskell/2010-May/thread.html>, you can see the thread "Can I help to maintain Haskell packages on AUR?", which consists of the replies I got. My original messages was this one:
| From: Peter Simons <simons@cryp.to> | Subject: Can I help to maintain Haskell packages on AUR? | To: Don Stewart <dons@galois.com> | Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 18:35:49 +0200 | Message-ID: <87vdac0wii.fsf@write-only.cryp.to> | | Hi Don, | | the AUR packages haskell-{hsdns,hsemail,funcmp} are out-of-date for quite a | while now. According to gour, the reason is that the ArchHaskell team lacks | developers to perform the updates. | | I would be happy to contribute some time and effort to the project. Can I help | in some way? | | Take care, | Peter
Don told me to "stay tuned", but nothing happened.
> I apologize if your requests seem to go unfulfilled, but --to me at > least-- the situation with arch-haskell and the AUR is a bit unclear, > so I'm not sure what action should be taken.
Well, when a Haskell package is obviously out-of-date on AUR and someone offers to take over maintenance, then disown it and let that person handle the package. That's the way it's done for everything else, and the procedure seems to work fine. It's a mystery to me why the ArchLinux team deviated from that procedure for Haskell packages in the first place.
Take care, Peter
I agree with your last paragraph. I've disowned all five packages since it makes sense to have their maintainer on Hackage also maintain them on the AUR. Go ahead and adopt them. Thanks. :)