[Haskell-cafe] Contributing packages?

[Carter Schonwald]

What email address did you use?

On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 6:05 PM Dominick Samperi <djsamperi at gmail.com>
wrote:

> There must be a backlog of requests for uploading rights as I have not
> heard back for some time.
>
> On Mon, May 8, 2023 at 3:38 AM Merijn Verstraaten <merijn at inconsistent.nl>
> wrote:
>
>> If I recall correctly, the account creation page mentions needing to mail
>> the hackage admins, but I don't know if there's any further reminders
>> afterwards.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Merijn
>>
>> > On 4 May 2023, at 17:32, Dominick Samperi <djsamperi at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > 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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