[Haskell-cafe] Hackage Update Brigade

[Conrad Parker]

On 28 May 2013 05:29, Alexander Solla <alex.solla at gmail.com> wrote:
> As per recent discussions, I'm making a list of volunteers who are willing
> to pick up some slack in Hackage package maintenance, so that we can submit
> an amendment to the Haskell Prime Committee's ticket 113
> (http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/haskell-prime/ticket/113)
>
> I think that showing that people are willing to pick up missing package
> maintainer's slack will alleviate the concern of breaking lots of code by
> refactoring the monad/applicative/functor hierarchy.  Code will be broken,
> but publicly available packages can be fixed by the community during a
> "staging" period.  To that end, I have made a Google Form to collect some
> volunteer information.  If you are interested in helping, please visit:
>
> https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1o4B8CEE_42u9f-sgmu2t5iSEvm0cq6-um6g_fHJt6GE/viewform
>
>

For that proposal, there is also an informal github group for updating
unmaintained packages,
which anyone willing is welcome to join:

https://github.com/haskell-pkg-janitors

cheers,

Conrad.