[Haskell-cafe] Unmaintained packages and hackage upload rights

[Erik Hesselink]

On Friday, January 31, 2014, Duncan Coutts <duncan at well-typed.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 2014-01-30 at 20:23 +0100, Erik Hesselink wrote:
>
> > There is support for trustees on the new hackage, as other's
> > mentioned. These can maintain any package. Perhaps this would be a
> > good time to recruit a few of them?
>
> I should point out that trustees cannot upload new package tarballs.
> They can upload docs and will be able to tweak .cabal metadata (when
> that feature is fixed) but we drew the line at source code changes.
>

True, but that can be changed if people think it's a good idea. It seems
they don't, currently, but I have a patch in case they do ;)

Erik
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