On 6 April 2010 05:32, Ivan Miljenovic
5) No-one is convincing anyone else to their point of view, so we have a stale mate.
Let me summarise the main arguments against the restriction: 1. It stops people from contributing to hackage. (It is immaterial that if you were in their position, you would have no problem with the restriction. Because of this policy, we have fewer libraries on hackage.) The reason this came up is because someone on IRC wrote a great implementation of which(1) as a Haskell library. I suggested they put it on hackage, and they told me they wouldn't because of this policy. The community loses out. 2. Inconsistency. If someone is known by their pseudonym on the mailing list, IRC, haskellwiki, blogs and so on, that is how I know them. How am I meant to find out their real name, in general? The rest of the internet works off pseudonyms and it is more convenient for everyone if hackage follows suit. 3. Privacy issues. Some people simply cannot reveal their real names. I've been over this thread and couldn't see anywhere where you'd made an attempt to refute these arguments, so I guess you take them as solid. On the other hand, every argument put forward by the pro-restriction group has been picked at and argued against by those against the restriction. That is not a stalemate.