Deciding on the decision model for adding and excluding packages

Don Stewart dons at galois.com
Mon Aug 3 12:54:01 EDT 2009


ganesh.sittampalam:
> Don Stewart wrote:
> > We need to start thinking about how to add or exclude packages from
> > the Haskell Platform. 
> > 
> > I've written a summary of the discussion so far for evidence-based
> > critieria for deciding on package notability. 
> > 
> >
> http://donsbot.wordpress.com/2009/08/01/heuristics-for-blessing-software
> -packages/
> > 
> > 
> > Please read it over and think about what the decision model looks
> like. 
> > So we can feed data in, to make decisions on how to include/exclude
> packages. 
> 
> I suggest making the discussion concrete by opening up for a list of
> suggestions, and then trying to figure out which of those suggestions
> should go in. Hopefully we can then back out a set of principles or
> precedents for the future from the discussion.

Package suggestions, you mean?

-- Don


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