On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 2:21 AM, Mike Izbicki <mike@izbicki.me> wrote:
Some of this information is very out of place on hackage, some of it
is duplication of the standard fields in the cabal file, and some of
it is just not things that a new user needs to see on their first
visit to the package documentation.

I question that; a README is pretty much the first thing I end up digging for when looking at something on Hackage. (I really like how github formats the README for a repo automatically. I'm lukewarm on GH otherwise but that one feature is very useful.)

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