[Haskell-cafe] Offer to mirror Hackage

[Ketil Malde]

Florian Lengyel <florian.lengyel at gmail.com> writes:

> Why is there even any consideration of some committee if someone wants to
> mirror the Hackage site? Why not mirror the site?

+1

  Alright, Mr. Wiseguy," she said, "if you're so clever, you tell us
  what colour it should be." 

We can either let Dan set up a mirror, and add it to the haskell.org DNS
(or just let it live at a different address), and have a mirror up in a
couple of hours -- or we can set up 501(c)(3)s (whatever they are),
decide on a payment service, write bylaws, hire lawyers etc.  All in the
name of "not-dealing-with-this-shit"¹?

In my experience, everything is a lot simpler if you can avoid dealing
directly with money.  The current problem is that hackage has sometimes
been unstable, having a mirror would fix or at least alleviate that.

-k

¹  As argued in the cited Reddit thread. Okay, in all fairness, the
"shit" being referred to is the current non-redundant DNS configuration,
not people volunteering to solve technical issues. :-)
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