On Thu, 2008-06-19 at 01:31 +0100, Ross Paterson wrote:
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 01:11:25PM -0700, Don Stewart wrote:
As author Adrian, you can ask to have them removed.
Gwern: do not upload other people's packages, if they're active! It is impolite, and leads to far too much broken code.
In particular, doing random forks of existing packages with their own matainers *is not helpful* -- it just leads to broken, unmaintained code.
I don't mind forks, as long as they have a maintainer and a different name.
My problem with these packages is that they specify maintainers, but the uploaded versions appear not to have been created by the named maintainers.
If a package names a maintainer, I think we should be able to assume that whatever was uploaded is that person's approved version, packaging and all.
I agree. I think we should get round to writing this down as a hackage policy and getting a quick show of hands on this list. Duncan