# How can I get in touch with Stan maintainers?

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**Created:** [September 28, 2023, 11:36am UTC](https://discourse.haskell.org/t/how-can-i-get-in-touch-with-stan-maintainers/7713 "2023-09-28T11:36:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![tomjaguarpaw](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.haskell.org/tomjaguarpaw/32/1230_2.png) [@tomjaguarpaw](https://discourse.haskell.org/u/tomjaguarpaw)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2023, 11:36am UTC](https://discourse.haskell.org/t/how-can-i-get-in-touch-with-stan-maintainers/7713/1 "2023-09-28T11:36:43Z")

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Hello,

Does anyone know how I can get in touch with the Stan maintainers?

Stan is a static analysis tool for Haskell. Its maintainers seem to have stopped supporting it after the GHC 8.x series because the GHC API changed too frequently for them to want to keep making adjustments.

Last year I did quite a lot of work to bring Stan and its dependencies up to 9.4. I made a PR to the Stan Github repo last month:

> <https://github.com/kowainik/stan/pull/506>
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> The approach is to make compatibility modules per individual GHC version.

I haven’t heard anything from the maintainers.

The only maintainer I know of is Veronika Romashkina. I’ve sent her a private email about this but had no response. Does anyone know how I can get in contact with Veronika or another Stan maintainer, if there is one?

I would be willing to be a comaintainer for Stan and the rest of the Kowainik ecosystem (if only to make sure they continue to work with future GHCs).

Thanks,

Tom

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**Author:** ![jaror](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.haskell.org/jaror/32/3271_2.png) [@jaror](https://discourse.haskell.org/u/jaror)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2023, 11:38am UTC](https://discourse.haskell.org/t/how-can-i-get-in-touch-with-stan-maintainers/7713/2 "2023-09-28T11:38:46Z")

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I’ve had a similar experience with trying to contribute to Kowainik packages (but I haven’t tried a private e-mail yet). I think the only remaining option is a fork or package takeover.

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**Author:** ![Vlix](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.haskell.org/vlix/32/1551_2.png) [@Vlix](https://discourse.haskell.org/u/Vlix)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2023, 10:28pm UTC](https://discourse.haskell.org/t/how-can-i-get-in-touch-with-stan-maintainers/7713/3 "2023-09-28T22:28:09Z")

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@ChShersh 's name is also mentioned in the README. Maybe they know how to get in touch with the maintainers? 🤷‍♀️

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**Author:** ![jaror](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.haskell.org/jaror/32/3271_2.png) [@jaror](https://discourse.haskell.org/u/jaror)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2023, 10:37pm UTC](https://discourse.haskell.org/t/how-can-i-get-in-touch-with-stan-maintainers/7713/4 "2023-09-28T22:37:34Z")

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I already tried asking him, but he has stepped down from all Kowainik packages:

> [@Maintaining haskell programs](http://discourse.haskell.org/t/maintaining-haskell-programs/7166/13):
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> Hopefully this is not too off-topic, but I’m sad to see Kowainik’s packages like [summoner](https://github.com/kowainik/summoner), [policeman](https://github.com/kowainik/policeman), and [stan](https://github.com/kowainik/stan/) wither. I’ve opened [a pull request for summoner to update it to support GHC 9.4](https://github.com/kowainik/summoner/pull/570), but that has seen no response for over a month. Do you need help? I can’t promise anything, but maybe I could help with minimal maintenance like that pull request now and then.

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**Author:** ![Bodigrim](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.haskell.org/bodigrim/32/1457_2.png) [@Bodigrim](https://discourse.haskell.org/u/Bodigrim)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2023, 6:19pm UTC](https://discourse.haskell.org/t/how-can-i-get-in-touch-with-stan-maintainers/7713/5 "2023-09-29T18:19:50Z")

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@tomjaguarpaw why would not you initiate a takeover? This is a standard procedure.

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**Author:** ![tomjaguarpaw](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.haskell.org/tomjaguarpaw/32/1230_2.png) [@tomjaguarpaw](https://discourse.haskell.org/u/tomjaguarpaw)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2023, 6:33pm UTC](https://discourse.haskell.org/t/how-can-i-get-in-touch-with-stan-maintainers/7713/6 "2023-09-29T18:33:31Z")

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Ultimately I will, but I’d prefer to make all reasonable efforts to contact the maintainers first, and hopefully become a maintainer with their good will.

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**Author:** ![jhenahan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.haskell.org/jhenahan/32/3578_2.png) [@jhenahan](https://discourse.haskell.org/u/jhenahan)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2023, 8:30pm UTC](https://discourse.haskell.org/t/how-can-i-get-in-touch-with-stan-maintainers/7713/7 "2023-09-29T20:30:59Z")

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Having watched this play out over the course of a full year with some interest, I think I can say with some confidence that you’ve done your due diligence and you should consider yourself at liberty to initiate a takeover or just fork it at this point.

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**Author:** ![jamesbrock](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.haskell.org/jamesbrock/32/1404_2.png) [@jamesbrock](https://discourse.haskell.org/u/jamesbrock)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2023, 3:45am UTC](https://discourse.haskell.org/t/how-can-i-get-in-touch-with-stan-maintainers/7713/8 "2023-10-03T03:45:00Z")

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You might consider adding Stan to the Haskell Github Trust.

> [@Haskell GitHub Trust is for Other People’s Packages](http://discourse.haskell.org/t/haskell-github-trust-is-for-other-people-s-packages/6272):
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> The [Haskell GitHub Trust](https://github.com/haskell-github-trust) is new GitHub organization for community maintenance of Haskell packages. If you find an under-maintained Haskell package which is useful but just needs a little freshening up, you generally have two good options. Submit a PR and pester the maintainer to publish a new version. Then next year another person who wants to use the package will have to repeat this process. Ask to become a maintainer. Then next year another person who wants to use the package will pester yo…

I sent you an ownership invitation @tomjaguarpaw in case you decide that you want to do that.