[Haskell-cafe] Hackage checking maintainership of packages

[Tobias Dammers]

On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 08:14:59PM +0800, Niklas Hambüchen wrote:
> On 06/05/13 20:06, Tillmann Rendel wrote:
> > Is "a human clicked the check box" a good metric for "a human commits
> > themselves to this package"?
> 
> If the check box has the text "Do you want this thing to be called
> 'maintained' on Hackage" next to it, yes.

The problem is that people tend to (truthfully) check such a box, then
stop maintaining the package for whatever reasons, and never bother
unchecking the box.