[Haskell-cafe] Unmaintained packages and hackage upload rights

[Ben Gamari]

Clark Gaebel <cgaebel at uwaterloo.ca> writes:

> How does the process of taking over maintenance add latency to your work?
>
> 1) Check out broken version of package.
> 2) Fix locally, bump version number locally.
> 3) cabal sandbox add-source ../fixed-package in any package that needs the
> fixed version.
> 4) Email hackage admins for upload rights.
> 5) Continue working on your actual project.
> 6) Receive upload privileges one day.
> 7) Upload fixed package.
>
> As far as I can tell, the only real latency cost here is that paid to fix
> the broken version.
>
In my experience, step 4 involved several round trips between a number
of different people. Admittedly, this is in part because it's easy to
forget about the broken package after you have fixed it locally.

Cheers,

- Ben

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