Retiring BlogLiterately
Tagged blog, Hackage, Wordpress, open-source, BlogLiterately, HaXml, haxr, haskell, meta
Way back in 2012 I took over maintainership of the BlogLiterately
tool from Robert
Greayer, its initial author. I used it for many years to post to my
Wordpress blog, added a
bunch
of
features,
solved some fun
bugs,
and created the accompanying BlogLiterately-diagrams
plugin
for embedding diagrams code in blog
posts. However, now that I have fled Wordpress and rebuilt my blog
with hakyll, I don’t use
BlogLiterately any more (there is even a diagrams-pandoc package
which does the same thing BlogLiterately-diagrams used to do). So,
as of today I am officially declaring BlogLiterately unsupported.
The fact is, I haven’t actually updated BlogLiterately since March
of last year. It currently only builds on GHC 9.4 or older, and no one
has complained, which I take as strong evidence that no one else is
using it either! However, if anyone out there is actually using it,
and would like to take over as maintainer, I would be very happy to
pass it along to you.
I do plan to continue maintaining
HaXml and
haxr, at least for now;
unlike BlogLiterately, I know they are still in use, especially
HaXml. However, BlogLiterately was really the only reason I cared
about these packages personally, so I would be happy to pass them
along as well; please get in touch if you would be willing to take
over maintaining one or both packages.
