[Haskell-cafe] Hackage checking maintainership of packages

[Tillmann Rendel]

Hi,

Niklas Hambüchen wrote:
> Having the metrics you mention is nice, but still they are just metrics
> and say little the only thing that's important:
>
>     Is there a human who commits themselves to this package?
>
>> I like the idea of displaying additional info about the status of
>> package development, but I don't like the idea of annoying hard-working
>> package maintainers with emails about their perfect packages
>
> I really think this is not too big of a deal, getting one email every 3
> months and clicking a few checkboxes.

Is "a human clicked the check box" a good metric for "a human commits 
themselves to this package"?

   Tillmann