hackage, package list, trac, some suggestions/questions

[Duncan Coutts]

On Fri, 2008-05-30 at 21:52 +0100, Duncan Coutts wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-05-30 at 15:23 +0100, Claus Reinke wrote:
> > hope this is the right list for hackage issues?-)
> > 
> > 1. hackage trac does not seem to have a "register" option
> >     (compare hackage trac with ghc trac). individual logins
> >     are nice because:
> >     - gives individual rather than anonymous reporters
> >     - one place less to support spam email harvesters
> >         (account name instead of full email address)
> >     - "register" is always there, hence easy to find, unlike
> >         the hint hidden on the trac home page that hackage
> >         is still abusing the haskell' trac.. (i had started this
> >         email before i found that hint;-)
> 
> We used to have that and got horribly spammed. Apparently for the ghc
> trac they've worked out how to do that without getting spammed so
> presumably we could do the same.

Now done.

Duncan