[Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell.org GSoC

Heinrich Apfelmus apfelmus at quantentunnel.de
Thu Feb 12 04:42:57 EST 2009


Wolfgang Jeltsch wrote:
> Don Stewart wrote:
>> For example, if all the haddocks on hackage.org were a wiki, and
>> interlinked, every single package author would benefit, as would all
>> users.
> 
> You mean, everyone should be able to mess about with my documentation? This 
> would be similar to give everyone commit rights to my repositories or allow 
> everyone to edit the code of my published libraries. What is the good thing 
> about that?

Well, it's excellent if you haven't written said documentation yet. ;)

But yes, the package author should have the last word about what goes in
and what does not. The goal is simply to drastically lower the bar of
participation.


Regards,
apfelmus

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