[Haskell-cafe] haskell-janitors (was Re: New rss maintainer)

On 22 October 2011 22:52, Bas van Dijk wrote:

I released a new rss:

http://hackage.haskell.org//package/rss-3000.2.0

It no longer requires old-time and is tested with the latest versions of its dependencies.

On 21 October 2011 17:34, Vincent Hanquez wrote:

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Perhaps, unless someone step up, it would be nice to move packages that have no maintainer anymore into a github organisation (haskell-janitors ?),

Nice idea! However I think we should always strive for having a single or a limited number of maintainers. Finally when nobody wants to take over a package we can hand it over to haskell-janitors.

I like the janitors idea because it is practical, and I also like the ideal world where every package has an active maintainer. How about we set up the haskell-janitors github group as Vincent suggests, with some basic rules like: * when you upload a package you put your name and email address in the maintainer field, with a comment saying that you are maintaining this package through the haskell-janitors group * anyone in the haskell-janitors group can upload a new version of a package which is maintained through the haskell-janitors group. When you do so you set (or prepend?) your name as maintainer. * if anyone anywhere ever gets keen to take exclusive maintenance of a project, to redesign it or whatever, they're welcome to take it out of haskell-janitors. Goals would be: * timely uploads (anyone can upload) * accountability (you put your name on it) * packages still have someone who can accept patches, answer questions etc. (you put your name on it) Conrad.