[Haskell-cafe] Hackage Update Brigade

[Lyndon Maydwell]

How can I join the group?

P.S. I've attached a simple image for the Gravatar if it looks okay.


On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 12:40 PM, Conrad Parker <conrad at metadecks.org>wrote:

> 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.
>
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