[Haskell-cafe] Contributing packages?

[Dominick Samperi]

Hello Carter,

I should have been more patient. I heard back from
hackage-trustees at haskell.org and managed to
publish my package
https://hackage.haskell.org/package/mathlist

Thanks,
Dominick

On Sat, May 13, 2023 at 12:03 PM Carter Schonwald <
carter.schonwald at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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