Note, there are some issues, as this is a package in the Haskell Platform, to do with upgrading and dependent packages. We should talk first about issues there.
On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Jason Dagit <dag...@gmail.com> wrote: > No response yet from Sven after about a month and no one seems to have heard > from him in over a year. > > I'm going to take over for now under the assumption that Sven is missing. > == My plans for moving forward == > * Assemble an opengl taskforce, a few people have already mentioned an > interest in being on the team > * clean up the current cabal files (I already wrote patches for that) > * put the repos on github to make team collaboration easier > * add the RULES that Andy Gill suggested for realToFrac > * look at adding instances for MArray so that GLfloat et al can be stored > in IOUArrays > * add support for opengl 4.x > * look at adding deprecation pragmas for deprecated opengl calls > * new hackage releases > * anything else that comes up > Thanks, > Jason > > On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 2:11 PM, Jason Dagit <dag...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I sent the message below to Haskell-Cafe about a week ago. I got one >> response saying that Sven has disappeared in the past but reappeared when >> updates were necessary. I still haven't heard from Sven. Now I'm widening >> my search. My original email to Sven was on March 11th. >> It looks like the OpenGL packages on hackage[1,2,3,4] have not been >> updated in some time. No updates later than Oct 2009. I tried to email >> Sven directly using the email address listed on hackage but after over two >> weeks I still haven't heard from him. I sent some patches to >> the opengl list about a week ago but I noticed that Sven hasn't posted on >> that list since Oct 2009 when he released the current version of OpenGLRaw. >> None of the public darcs repos have patches newer than Oct 2009. Also, the >> homepage url listed in the packages is a 404: >> http://www.haskell.org/HOpenGL/ >> My concern is that Sven has disappeared for some reason. I hope he's >> well. He has always done top notch work in the past maintaining these >> libraries. Perhaps he's simply busy or lost interest? >> Does anyone know if he was looking for a new maintainer? Perhaps you've >> heard from him more recently than Oct 2009? >> If a new maintainer is needed, I would consider nominating myself :) >> Thanks, >> Jason >> [1] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/OpenGLRaw >> [2] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/OpenGL >> [3] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/GLURaw >> [4] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/GLUT > > _______________________________________________ > Libraries mailing list > librar...@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/libraries > > _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list Haskell@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell