Taking Over the webfinger-client Package Maintenance

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Hello everyone,

I am interested in taking over the maintenance of the webfinger-client package. The last upload of this package was in 2016, and currently, it fails to build and lacks Haddock documentation.

I have attempted to contact the maintainer via email at fr33domlover@riseup.net but have not received a response yet. Additionally, I have opened an issue in the repository hosted on hub.darcs.net and have created a fork where I uploaded patches to make the package buildable again.

Here are the relevant links:

If anyone has been in contact with the maintainer recently or knows how to reach them, please let me know. Otherwise, if there are no objections, I would like to proceed with taking over the package to ensure its continued availability.

Thanks!

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I followed some links and found a recent public activity (2 months ago) of this person on CodeBerg.

Here are some identities:

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@pere Would you be able to confirm whether you are the maintainer of the webfinger-client package? I am interested in taking over its maintenance and would appreciate your input.

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Hi all, I’d like to ask for some advice.

I’m interested in taking over the maintenance of a package. Following the guidelines on the Haskell wiki, I have:

  1. Reached out to the original maintainer to express my interest.
  2. Waited for a reasonable amount of time (nearly six weeks) without a response.
  3. Contacted the Hackage admins to request a takeover.

However, I haven’t received any response from the admins yet. I’m wondering if there’s anything else I should do at this point, or if I just need to wait longer. Has anyone experienced something similar?

Any guidance would be greatly appreciated—thank you!

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Speaking as a Hackage admin, it seems like:

  • only one or two of us are active at all,
  • realistically I only handle my personal e-mails on weekends, and I don’t always read all of them every weekend,
  • I feel slightly uncomfortable with how Policy regarding taking over Hackage packages exposed a wide range of views in the community about how we handle this, and I haven’t really figured out how I want to deal with that yet
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I’d ping Hackage admins once more; they had a few extremely busy weeks migrating Hackage to new servers recently.

While it’s possible (although unlikely) to amend the takeover policy in future, the best we can do in the meantime is to follow the existing one. The case at hand does not seem to be problematic with regards to the linked topic, does it?

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I finally received upload permission for the package today. Thank you for taking the time to help me despite your busy schedule. On a side note, the build succeeds on my local macOS, but it fails on Hackage. I’ll do my best to contribute to the Haskell ecosystem, even in a small way. Thank you again.

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