[Haskell-cafe] Hackage Update Brigade

[Conrad Parker]

On 29 May 2013 08:54, Lyndon Maydwell <maydwell at gmail.com> wrote:
> How can I join the group?

by asking any of the current members :) I've added you.

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

great, can you add it?

Conrad.

>
>
> 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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