Hackage Update Brigade

As per recent discussions, I'm making a list of volunteers who are willing to pick up some slack in Hackage package maintenance, so that we can submit an amendment to the Haskell Prime Committee's ticket 113 ( http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/haskell-prime/ticket/113) I think that showing that people are willing to pick up missing package maintainer's slack will alleviate the concern of breaking lots of code by refactoring the monad/applicative/functor hierarchy. Code will be broken, but publicly available packages can be fixed by the community during a "staging" period. To that end, I have made a Google Form to collect some volunteer information. If you are interested in helping, please visit: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1o4B8CEE_42u9f-sgmu2t5iSEvm0cq6-um6g_fHJt6GE...

On 28 May 2013 05:29, Alexander Solla
As per recent discussions, I'm making a list of volunteers who are willing to pick up some slack in Hackage package maintenance, so that we can submit an amendment to the Haskell Prime Committee's ticket 113 (http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/haskell-prime/ticket/113)
I think that showing that people are willing to pick up missing package maintainer's slack will alleviate the concern of breaking lots of code by refactoring the monad/applicative/functor hierarchy. Code will be broken, but publicly available packages can be fixed by the community during a "staging" period. To that end, I have made a Google Form to collect some volunteer information. If you are interested in helping, please visit:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1o4B8CEE_42u9f-sgmu2t5iSEvm0cq6-um6g_fHJt6GE...
For that proposal, there is also an informal github group for updating unmaintained packages, which anyone willing is welcome to join: https://github.com/haskell-pkg-janitors cheers, Conrad.

How can I join the group?
P.S. I've attached a simple image for the Gravatar if it looks okay.
On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 12:40 PM, Conrad Parker
On 28 May 2013 05:29, Alexander Solla
wrote: As per recent discussions, I'm making a list of volunteers who are willing to pick up some slack in Hackage package maintenance, so that we can submit an amendment to the Haskell Prime Committee's ticket 113 (http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/haskell-prime/ticket/113)
I think that showing that people are willing to pick up missing package maintainer's slack will alleviate the concern of breaking lots of code by refactoring the monad/applicative/functor hierarchy. Code will be broken, but publicly available packages can be fixed by the community during a "staging" period. To that end, I have made a Google Form to collect some volunteer information. If you are interested in helping, please visit:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1o4B8CEE_42u9f-sgmu2t5iSEvm0cq6-um6g_fHJt6GE...
For that proposal, there is also an informal github group for updating unmaintained packages, which anyone willing is welcome to join:
https://github.com/haskell-pkg-janitors
cheers,
Conrad.
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On 29 May 2013 08:54, Lyndon Maydwell
How can I join the group?
by asking any of the current members :) I've added you.
P.S. I've attached a simple image for the Gravatar if it looks okay.
great, can you add it? Conrad.
On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 12:40 PM, Conrad Parker
wrote: On 28 May 2013 05:29, Alexander Solla
wrote: As per recent discussions, I'm making a list of volunteers who are willing to pick up some slack in Hackage package maintenance, so that we can submit an amendment to the Haskell Prime Committee's ticket 113 (http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/haskell-prime/ticket/113)
I think that showing that people are willing to pick up missing package maintainer's slack will alleviate the concern of breaking lots of code by refactoring the monad/applicative/functor hierarchy. Code will be broken, but publicly available packages can be fixed by the community during a "staging" period. To that end, I have made a Google Form to collect some volunteer information. If you are interested in helping, please visit:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1o4B8CEE_42u9f-sgmu2t5iSEvm0cq6-um6g_fHJt6GE...
For that proposal, there is also an informal github group for updating unmaintained packages, which anyone willing is welcome to join:
https://github.com/haskell-pkg-janitors
cheers,
Conrad.
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Done :)
On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 12:22 PM, Conrad Parker
On 29 May 2013 08:54, Lyndon Maydwell
wrote: How can I join the group?
by asking any of the current members :) I've added you.
P.S. I've attached a simple image for the Gravatar if it looks okay.
great, can you add it?
Conrad.
On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 12:40 PM, Conrad Parker
wrote: On 28 May 2013 05:29, Alexander Solla
wrote: As per recent discussions, I'm making a list of volunteers who are willing to pick up some slack in Hackage package maintenance, so that we can submit an amendment to the Haskell Prime Committee's ticket 113 (http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/haskell-prime/ticket/113)
I think that showing that people are willing to pick up missing
package
maintainer's slack will alleviate the concern of breaking lots of code by refactoring the monad/applicative/functor hierarchy. Code will be broken, but publicly available packages can be fixed by the community during a "staging" period. To that end, I have made a Google Form to collect some volunteer information. If you are interested in helping, please visit:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1o4B8CEE_42u9f-sgmu2t5iSEvm0cq6-um6g_fHJt6GE...
For that proposal, there is also an informal github group for updating unmaintained packages, which anyone willing is welcome to join:
https://github.com/haskell-pkg-janitors
cheers,
Conrad.
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Can I join too? Always happy to spend my free time merging and reviewing
some Haskell code :)
A.
On 29 May 2013 04:56, Lyndon Maydwell
Done :)
On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 12:22 PM, Conrad Parker
wrote: On 29 May 2013 08:54, Lyndon Maydwell
wrote: How can I join the group?
by asking any of the current members :) I've added you.
P.S. I've attached a simple image for the Gravatar if it looks okay.
great, can you add it?
Conrad.
On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 12:40 PM, Conrad Parker
wrote: On 28 May 2013 05:29, Alexander Solla
wrote: As per recent discussions, I'm making a list of volunteers who are willing to pick up some slack in Hackage package maintenance, so that we can submit an amendment to the Haskell Prime Committee's ticket 113 (http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/haskell-prime/ticket/113)
I think that showing that people are willing to pick up missing
package
maintainer's slack will alleviate the concern of breaking lots of code by refactoring the monad/applicative/functor hierarchy. Code will be broken, but publicly available packages can be fixed by the community during a "staging" period. To that end, I have made a Google Form to collect some volunteer information. If you are interested in helping, please visit:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1o4B8CEE_42u9f-sgmu2t5iSEvm0cq6-um6g_fHJt6GE...
For that proposal, there is also an informal github group for updating unmaintained packages, which anyone willing is welcome to join:
https://github.com/haskell-pkg-janitors
cheers,
Conrad.
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2013/5/28 Conrad Parker
For that proposal, there is also an informal github group for updating unmaintained packages, which anyone willing is welcome to join:
Say I would be willing to spend a few hours a month to fix some problems, but I'm not very experienced; I only use haskell for a few small programs at work, I'm not used to working collaboratively (but willing to learn) Would I still be able to be useful ?
participants (5)
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Alexander Solla
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Alfredo Di Napoli
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Conrad Parker
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David Virebayre
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Lyndon Maydwell