[Haskell-cafe] Contributing packages?

[Dominick Samperi]

Thanks for the feedback. It might be helpful to add this requirement to the
Package upload page, instead of only displaying it after a failed upload.



On Thu, May 4, 2023 at 4:23 AM Merijn Verstraaten <merijn at inconsistent.nl>
wrote:

> Unlike the "long time ago", when everyone would immediately get upload
> rights upon account creation, you now need to be manually added to the
> Uploaders group by mailing the hackage admin address. This due to spammers
> abusing hackage and uploading packages consisting solely of
> linkspam/advertisements.
>
> Cheers,
> Merijn
>
> > On 4 May 2023, at 08:23, Henning Thielemann <
> lemming at henning-thielemann.de> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 4 May 2023, Dominick Samperi wrote:
> >
> >> I just tried to upload a new Haskell package and ran into some
> difficulties. If I just try to upload, it fails and says I need to contact
> somebody in the trustees group to be added to the Uploaders group.
> >> If I try to upload a package candidate instead, it says Forbidden, No
> access for this resource.
> >
> > You need a Hackage account for both candidate upload and final release.
> >
> >> Also, I have a Hackage account and I can get to the account management
> page, and generate an auth key, but I don't know what I can do with that.
> >
> > It's a long time ago that I registered my account, but maybe your
> account must be added to a special group, the group Uploaders.
> >
> > I do not need an auth key for uploading, just user name and password. I
> use 'cabal upload' for Hackage releases.
> >
> >> It seems the package candidate feature is the way to go, since
> >> direct uploads are irreversible and more difficult to manage.
> >
> > right
> >
> > You can watch and check the appearance of your package candidate at
> Hackage before publishing. You can even use the uploaded candidate
> temporarily in your project by adding its tarball URL to
> cabal.project.local or stack.yaml.
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