I do think it's a real problem even for seasoned haskellers. I don't have problems in remembering which packages I should use for the things I've already used before recently, but I need to search Hackage just as everyone else as soon as I need to do something new.

I also agree that this is more of a social problem not a tooling one. Hackage would just provide a tool for helping this kind of social interaction.

On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 1:25 PM, Carter Schonwald <carter.schonwald@gmail.com> wrote:

is that really a problem though?

Who's problem are we trying to solve? Is this being proposed to help seasoned haskellers, or make getting started easier for new folks?

those are two VERY different problems. Also many of the maintainers for heavily used packages are incredibly busy as is, do they need to keep track of even *more* email? I'd hope not.

In some respects, just having the hackage2 deps and revdeps stats is a good proxy for how likely a package is to be well maintained.

On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 8:45 AM, Niklas Hambüchen <mail@nh2.me> wrote:
Well, that's what the "once every 3 months" is good for.

On Mon 06 May 2013 20:34:13 SGT, Tobias Dammers wrote:
> The problem is that people tend to (truthfully) check such a box, then
> stop maintaining the package for whatever reasons, and never bother
> unchecking the box.

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