Florian Lengyel
Why is there even any consideration of some committee if someone wants to mirror the Hackage site? Why not mirror the site?
+1 Alright, Mr. Wiseguy," she said, "if you're so clever, you tell us what colour it should be." We can either let Dan set up a mirror, and add it to the haskell.org DNS (or just let it live at a different address), and have a mirror up in a couple of hours -- or we can set up 501(c)(3)s (whatever they are), decide on a payment service, write bylaws, hire lawyers etc. All in the name of "not-dealing-with-this-shit"¹? In my experience, everything is a lot simpler if you can avoid dealing directly with money. The current problem is that hackage has sometimes been unstable, having a mirror would fix or at least alleviate that. -k ¹ As argued in the cited Reddit thread. Okay, in all fairness, the "shit" being referred to is the current non-redundant DNS configuration, not people volunteering to solve technical issues. :-) -- If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants