[Haskell-cafe] New repo location for the network package

[Johan Tibell]

On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 2:41 AM, John Lato <jwlato at gmail.com> wrote:
> Similarly, what's the remit of the Haskell organization on github?  Is the
> intention to be an umbrella for any haskell package, or more restricted?  I
> have the same question as Magnus (although in my case I took over something
> on github; if I could move to darcs and preserve history I would).

See my reply to Magnus. I don't think it's scalable to put every
Hackage package under one organization (and I don't think we gain much
from doing so.) For now I think we should reserve the organization for
core packages (i.e. HP packages.)

For converting a repo and preserve history, see

    http://www.serpentine.com/blog/2010/10/21/how-to-migrate-from-darcs-to-mercurial-or-git/

Johan