[Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell web development entries on the Wiki

On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 11:59 AM, Christopher Done wrote:

On 3 October 2010 06:51, Michael Snoyman wrote:

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* Does pass.net still exist anywhere? Same for parallel web.

I couldn't find any references to pass.net.

http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Web/Existing_software

I meant that I remember adding it, but I couldn't find any references for it. I.e. it's dead. Maybe we can split that page by active/inactive too.

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I would recommend *not* qualifying the active/recommended stuff. Maybe "Frameworks" and "Frameworks/Inactive". I personally wouldn't want to group new, unevaluated code with inactive: I think we should give the new players the same publicity as the established products on the main page, but perhaps with a little label explaining how new/untested it is.

Trouble is most on the Web/Frameworks page are still /available/ but it's hard to see if they're "active" i.e. people are still using them, or whether they're still build-able. Perhaps it would be best to create the Frameworks/Inactive page and then at the top of the Frameworks page say "Inactive frameworks are listed here." and then when someone is definitely sure something is defunct they can move it. Or what do we do?

I would actually do the opposite: we can put the libraries/frameworks that we are sure *are* active into the Active section and put everything else into Inactive. I have a feeling we'll be pretty close on the mark with our guesses; a quick look at the last upload date on Hackage should be sufficient. People are *much* more likely to move stuff from Inactive to Active than the other way around. We can also send out an email to the cafe/web-devel with a list of packages we plan to mark as inactive and see if anyone objects. If no one is willing to stand up for a package, odds are it's dead. Michael