# Taking over open-browser
**URL:** https://discourse.haskell.org/t/taking-over-open-browser/11500
**Category:** Announcements
**Created:** [February 26, 2025, 10:08pm UTC](https://discourse.haskell.org/t/taking-over-open-browser/11500 "2025-02-26T22:08:13Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@mpilgrem](https://discourse.haskell.org/u/mpilgrem)
#### Post date: [February 26, 2025, 10:08pm UTC](https://discourse.haskell.org/t/taking-over-open-browser/11500/1 "2025-02-26T22:08:13Z")
Haskell package [`open-browser`](https://hackage.haskell.org/package/open-browser) is a dependency of Stack (and Cabal (the tool)) and was last uploaded to Hackage in January 2016. Its sole recorded Hackage maintainer is [`rightfold`](https://hackage.haskell.org/user/rightfold). I’ve emailed the recorded maintainer email, but had no response. The recorded ‘home page’ GitHub repository does not [exist](https://github.com/rightfold/open-browser). There is a `rightfold` user on GitHub, but none of its six public repositories are Haskell-related and activity starts in 2019.
On the assumption that the package has been abandoned, I am willing to take it over.
Following Hackage [policy](https://wiki.haskell.org/Taking_over_a_package#If_you_cannot_contact_the_author/maintainer), I am stating my intention here, before ‘waiting a while’.
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### Author:  [@bmobn00b](https://discourse.haskell.org/u/bmobn00b)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2025, 5:45am UTC](https://discourse.haskell.org/t/taking-over-open-browser/11500/2 "2025-02-27T05:45:05Z")
[GitHub - yamadapc/open-browser: Haskell package to open a web browser.](https://github.com/yamadapc/open-browser) there’s a repo, but seems not belongs to original author
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### Author:  [@f-a](https://discourse.haskell.org/u/f-a)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2025, 6:05am UTC](https://discourse.haskell.org/t/taking-over-open-browser/11500/3 "2025-02-27T06:05:07Z")
> [@mpilgrem](#):
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> Following Hackage [policy](https://wiki.haskell.org/Taking_over_a_package#If_you_cannot_contact_the_author/maintainer), I am stating my intention here, before ‘waiting a while’.
Not sure if you have already done it but: if you also post on `haskell-cafe`, while putting the maintainer in CC, you will have a paper trail of contact.
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### Author:  [@mpilgrem](https://discourse.haskell.org/u/mpilgrem)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2025, 2:58pm UTC](https://discourse.haskell.org/t/taking-over-open-browser/11500/4 "2025-02-28T14:58:18Z")
Thank you for that advice. I have now followed it.
EDIT: I may have spoken too soon. You have to subscribe to post. I had forgotten that I had been unable to subscribe in the past. I’ve tried again.
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### Author:  [@mpilgrem](https://discourse.haskell.org/u/mpilgrem)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2025, 12:36am UTC](https://discourse.haskell.org/t/taking-over-open-browser/11500/5 "2025-03-16T00:36:45Z")
I have been added as a maintainer of `open-browser` on Hackage, and released `open-browser-0.2.1.1` (which now has a change log).