On Sun, 2011-09-11 at 11:37 +0100, Neil Mitchell wrote:
There are several problems here: [..] Why not email the maintainers of packages you think need a better description - ideally giving suggestions? I'd welcome that for any of my packages.
Maybe something similiar to http://kernelnewbies.org/KernelJanitors could be done, e.g. "HackageJanitors". Those HackageJanitors could also help making new GHC releases smoother by providing efficiently the usual minor fixes to hackage libraries breaking by new GHC releases (updating library version constraints, fixes related to GHC becoming less tolerant, adapting to Cabal changes). Maybe they could also be given the privilege to upload trivial fixes to hackage directly (possibly with a version indicating such a maintainer-override upload) if the library maintainer takes too long to respond or has generally opt-ed in for to such a "auto"-maintaince service (maybe by a new flag in .cabal files). cheers, hvr