Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage 2 maintainership

On 14 February 2012 01:53, Duncan Coutts wrote:

Hi Ben,

On 13 February 2012 23:44, Ben Gamari wrote:

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Hey all,

Those of you who follow the Haskell subreddit no doubt saw today's post regarding the status of Hackage 2. As has been said many times in the past, the primary blocker at this point to the adoption of Hackage 2 appears to be the lack of an administrator.

Yes, much of it is lack of an individual to keep momentum up and keep everyone else motivated. While I'm keen that hackage moves forward, my volunteer time is spread too thin to be that person keeping everything organised. That said, where I spend my volunteer time is to a large part directed by what other people are doing, it's much more fun and motivating if there's other people working with you.

Ah, here's the link to my last go at getting people to self-organise. http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/cabal-devel/2011-October/007803.html You should find it somewhat useful. It gives an overview of people who are / have been involved. We did get another reasonable push at the time. In particular Max did a lot of good work. I'm not quite sure why it petered out again, I'd have to ask Max what went wrong, if it was my fault for letting things block on me or if it was just holidays/christmas. Maintaining momentum is hard. Duncan