wren ng thornton
Using a wiki page for each project enables anybody to add comments.[...]
I think this is a great idea.
Because of Duncan's concerns about imposing too much burden on authors, and because there are many mature projects which already have wikis etc, I have a counter-proposal.
I don't this this is the same thing. Marc's proposal would provide a scratch pad for random users to discuss or comment on various stuff on Hackage. At least the way I see it, it is primarily *not* for use by the author, and in fact most useful when the author is not around to actively support his project. E.g. my package that was used as an example, while (arguably) useful, is way to small for me to bother with setting up a full site with web pages or bug trackers, etc. Other packages are orphaned or see little interest from their author.
We already have community.haskell.org for authors to host their webpages and Darcs repos. [..] Rather than giving Hackage wikis, perhaps it would be better to point more people towards community.haskell.org and maybe increase the options offered there (in case people dislike Trac).
This is great, but I view this as a different issue. -k -- If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants