What's the status of this package?

[pmiddend]

Is this package abandoned? There is develop, which is incompatible with master, but has new features and a different structure.

[chrra]

It's almost abandoned. It was thrown together in a hurry, so the code quality is abysmal. "develop"/"refactor" is an attempt to fix this, but as it's an incredible amount of tedious, anal work, and life gets in the way a lot, progress has stalled.

[pmiddend]

Oh, okay. Maybe you can find a new maintainer on the mailing list?

[JohnAZoidberg]

Could you please create issues for what you think should be improved?
Then we can work together on fixing those to bring the library in a state that everyone's happy with :)
Because it's currently the only library for iCalendar on Hackage.

[ghost]

@chrra I would be available and willing to maintain the package if need be -- though I may not have the time to completely refactor / cleanup the code, I have enough time to integrate / merge various PRs from the community; and / or create issues with "help wanted" for what I think really needs to be changed ?

[chrra]

@Phenitei Sorry for the late response. Yes, thank you, that would be welcome.

[ghost]

No problem, I'm happy to help :) And if anyone else wants to undertake the larger project of the develop branch, that'd be nice as well!

[pmiddend]

@Phenitei Thanks for stepping up! Is there any plan to release a new version with the recurrence stuff in it? No pressure, of course, just wondering if you already made plans. :)

[ghost]

@pmiddend Hi! Thanks for asking! There should be a release on stackage with the latest versions and the duplicate key solved soon (back from summer break). Not sure how much time I'll be able to allocate to the recurrence PR yet - that'll depend on school workload. Any help is welcome though :)

[NorfairKing]

I've been using this package for smos: https://smos.cs-syd.eu/smos-calendar-import
I'm writing my own (heavily-tested) recurring code, just to make sure it is as correct as I can get it.
See https://github.com/NorfairKing/smos/tree/smos-calendar-import-refactor and in particular: https://github.com/NorfairKing/smos/blob/smos-calendar-import-refactor/smos-calendar-import/README.md

[maralorn]

@NorfairKing That seems super sweet and useful! Would you consider factoring that out into a library for hackage? The missing recurrency support for iCalendars is a glaring gap on hackage.

[NorfairKing]

@maralorn I'd love to but it's hard to justify the time to do that. You're welcome to email me at [email protected] if you need it for professional reasons.