agreeing a policy for maintainers and hackageDB

[Philippa Cowderoy]

On Tue, 1 Jul 2008, Gwern Branwen wrote:

> > non-maintainers shouldn't upload new versions of maintained packages
> > without written ;) maintainer permission. well, as far as maintainer
> > answers their letters
> 
> And how would we handle the case where the package is fully maintained, 
> but the maintainer hates Cabal & Hackage and would never give 
> permission? Does the maintainer have eternal veto power over uploads?
> 

To the extent it's legal to do so? Upload a package clearly marked as 
unofficial, with the maintainer field blank.

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