# Taking Over the webfinger-client Package Maintenance

**URL:** <https://discourse.haskell.org/t/taking-over-the-webfinger-client-package-maintenance/11628>\
**Category:** Announcements\
**Created:** [March 14, 2025, 3:45am UTC](https://discourse.haskell.org/t/taking-over-the-webfinger-client-package-maintenance/11628 "2025-03-14T03:45:39Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 8\
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**Author:** ![nattybear](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.haskell.org/nattybear/32/5034_2.png) [@nattybear](https://discourse.haskell.org/u/nattybear)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2025, 3:45am UTC](https://discourse.haskell.org/t/taking-over-the-webfinger-client-package-maintenance/11628/1 "2025-03-14T03:45:40Z")

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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](http://hub.darcs.net) and have created a fork where I uploaded patches to make the package buildable again.

Here are the relevant links:

- Hackage: [webfinger-client](https://hackage.haskell.org/package/webfinger-client)
- Issue on [hub.darcs.net](http://hub.darcs.net): [Issue #1](https://hub.darcs.net/fr33domlover/webfinger-client/issue/1)
- My fork with patches: [Changes](https://hub.darcs.net/vincent/webfinger-client/changes)

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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**Author:** ![andreasabel](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.haskell.org/andreasabel/32/1764_2.png) [@andreasabel](https://discourse.haskell.org/u/andreasabel)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2025, 6:30am UTC](https://discourse.haskell.org/t/taking-over-the-webfinger-client-package-maintenance/11628/2 "2025-03-14T06:30:54Z")

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

- [https://codeberg.org/ForgeFed/ForgeFed/issues/240](https://codeberg.org/ForgeFed/ForgeFed/issues/240)

Here are some identities:

- [Anatoly Krasner | Hackage](https://hackage.haskell.org/user/akrasner)
- [fr33domlover - NotABug.org: Free code hosting](https://notabug.org/fr33domlover)
- [Pere Lev - Codeberg.org](https://codeberg.org/fr33domlover)

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**Author:** ![nattybear](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.haskell.org/nattybear/32/5034_2.png) [@nattybear](https://discourse.haskell.org/u/nattybear)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2025, 5:13am UTC](https://discourse.haskell.org/t/taking-over-the-webfinger-client-package-maintenance/11628/3 "2025-03-17T05:13:07Z")

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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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**Author:** ![nattybear](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.haskell.org/nattybear/32/5034_2.png) [@nattybear](https://discourse.haskell.org/u/nattybear)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2025, 5:36am UTC](https://discourse.haskell.org/t/taking-over-the-webfinger-client-package-maintenance/11628/4 "2025-04-24T05:36:58Z")

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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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**Author:** ![bmillwood](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.haskell.org/bmillwood/32/4831_2.png) [@bmillwood](https://discourse.haskell.org/u/bmillwood)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2025, 2:30pm UTC](https://discourse.haskell.org/t/taking-over-the-webfinger-client-package-maintenance/11628/5 "2025-05-04T14:30:20Z")

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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](https://discourse.haskell.org/t/policy-regarding-taking-over-hackage-packages/11121) 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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**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:** [May 4, 2025, 5:10pm UTC](https://discourse.haskell.org/t/taking-over-the-webfinger-client-package-maintenance/11628/6 "2025-05-04T17:10:24Z")

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> [@nattybear](#):
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> 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?

I’d ping Hackage admins once more; they had a few extremely busy weeks migrating Hackage to new servers recently.

> [@bmillwood](#):
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> I feel slightly uncomfortable with how [Policy regarding taking over Hackage packages](https://discourse.haskell.org/t/policy-regarding-taking-over-hackage-packages/11121) 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

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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**Author:** ![nattybear](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.haskell.org/nattybear/32/5034_2.png) [@nattybear](https://discourse.haskell.org/u/nattybear)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2025, 1:28pm UTC](https://discourse.haskell.org/t/taking-over-the-webfinger-client-package-maintenance/11628/7 "2025-05-05T13:28:58Z")

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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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**Author:** ![andreasabel](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.haskell.org/andreasabel/32/1764_2.png) [@andreasabel](https://discourse.haskell.org/u/andreasabel)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2025, 7:40am UTC](https://discourse.haskell.org/t/taking-over-the-webfinger-client-package-maintenance/11628/8 "2025-06-05T07:40:58Z")

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> [@bmillwood](#):
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> Speaking as a Hackage admin, it seems like:
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> - only one or two of us are active at all,

Maybe time to recruit new hackage admins? I’d volunteer.

The last round of recruitments must have been ages ago.  
The current list [Hackage admins | Hackage](https://hackage.haskell.org/users/admins/) contains members that have been very active in the Haskell community 10 or 15 years ago but are no longer.  
Maybe time to include the next generation.