On 10/21/11 11:34 AM, Vincent Hanquez wrote:
Perhaps, unless someone step up, it would be nice to move packages that have no maintainer anymore into a github organisation (haskell-janitors ?), where each package could have many owners and it's easy and simple to add/remove push rights there.
That could also be an obvious place to look, for newcomers, to get involved.
+1. I wouldn't try to be too aggressive about moving ownerless projects over, just the ones that are popular and yet definitively abandoned. It'd also be nice for the janitors to coordinate helping out with maintenance of some of the larger non-abandoned projects which are understaffed. Major hacking on non-abandoned projects isn't really a beginner/janitor-friendly task, but something like helping to flesh out the Haddocks of widely used but underdocumented packages would help the overall image of Hackage as well as giving newbies an excuse to go poking around reading code to figure out what it does. -- Live well, ~wren