Re: [Haskell-cafe] What about adding a wiki for each haskell project?

Excerpts from wren ng thornton's message of Sun Dec 13 13:54:04 +0100 2009:

Ketil Malde wrote:

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wren ng thornton writes:

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Using a wiki page for each project enables anybody to add comments.[...]

I think this is a great idea.

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Because of Duncan's concerns about imposing too much burden on authors, and because there are many mature projects which already have wikis etc, I have a counter-proposal.

I don't this this is the same thing. Marc's proposal would provide a scratch pad for random users to discuss or comment on various stuff on Hackage. At least the way I see it, it is primarily *not* for use by the author, and in fact most useful when the author is not around to actively support his project.

But if it's a wiki, wouldn't people be able to add changes themselves? Isn't that the idea behind wikis? Sure, the authors could lock down their wikis, but I don't get the feeling that many would.

My interpretation of Duncan's concern ---not meaning to put words in his mouth--- is that adding a Hackage wiki could place undue burden on the authors. If authors already have a wiki, then a Hackage wiki is just an extra place to check for feedback which will be prone to duplication and being out-of-date.

Indeed I didn't want hackage to host the wiki. I only want hackage to host the link to the wiki page. If this burden exist can we make it smaller by using a wiki which can send emails to the author (or the dev mailinglists) whenever there is a change? Then authors don't have to poll the wiki pages themselves. Anyway I feel this is going nowhere. The people which may benefit a lot are beginners. I learned that there are some maintainers who do follow Duncan's concerns. So let me start a last thread on beginners@haskell.org. If they all say they fear outdated content more than they appreciate nice howtos or bugfixes which haven't been uploaded yet I'll forget about this idea and shut up. comparison to haskell.org/haskellwiki ===================================== Let's not forget that haskell.org is a nice source of information. It's a wiki as well. What makes haskell.org/haskellwiki (all other pages) that much different from what I propose? Let's wait and see what beginners think. Thank you very much for participating Marc Weber