[Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell project proposals reddit

Lionel Barret De Nazaris lionel at gamr7.com
Wed Dec 10 09:18:56 EST 2008


Reddit is not moderated.

But there is a difference between the new links and the top links.

There you are :
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell_proposals/comments/7ijor/a_library_or_embedded_language_for_interactive/

(upmodded)

Benjamin L.Russell wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Dec 2008 20:34:20 -0800, Don Stewart <dons at galois.com>
> wrote:
>
>   
>> I'd like to echo Jason's remarks earlier.
>>
>>    http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell_proposals/
>>
>> We've tried for a couple of years now to efficiently track 'wanted
>> libraries' for the community, but never with much success.
>>
>> In particular, two approaches have been tried:
>>
>>    * a wiki page
>>    * the 200{6,7,8} summer of code trac
>>
>> neither proved workable long term, likely because no one knew about
>> them, they're harder to contribute to and other factors.
>>
>> Now I know there's a lot of spare Haskell capacity in this community.
>> 3000 mailing list readers, but only 70 new libraries a week being
>> uploaded to Hackage --- that's not how we take over the world!
>>
>> So this is your chance to contribute:
>>
>>    * propose new libraries, and explain why you'd want them
>>    * vote on things you'd like to see
>>    * pick up tasks that sound interesting
>>
>> Let's try to make this work!
>>     
>
> After just registering and proposing "A library (or "embedded
> language") for interactive animations with 2D and 3D graphics and
> sound to replace Fran," thirteen minutes have passed, but my proposal
> hasn't appeared yet.
>
> Is your proposal list at http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell_proposals/
> moderated?
>
> -- Benjamin L. Russell
>
>
>   


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