[Haskell-cafe] Package descriptions on hackage

[Brandon Allbery]

On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 13:14, wren ng thornton <wren at freegeek.org> wrote:

> On 9/11/11 6:37 AM, Neil Mitchell wrote:
>
>> Why not email the maintainers of packages you think need a better
>> description - ideally giving suggestions? I'd welcome that for any of
>> my packages.
>>
>
> +1.
>
> Of course, requiring feedback in order to improve places an undue burden on
> the users; the maintainers should be trying to save users from that labor.
> But everything has to start somewhere.
>

Not to mention that not all users can actually help there; I'm still
smarting a bit after hitting the functional lenses package and bouncing hard
(even after digging out and reading the paper, which made more sense than
the haddock...).

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