Oh I see what you mean now Andreas, thanks for the detailed explanation!I like your idea of "ladder" with packages climbing it, nice way to enforce rule only when really necessary.On 9 May 2014 15:24, Andreas Abel <andreas.abel@ifi.lmu.de> wrote:--
Well, not all packages uploaded to hackage are "libraries" in the sense that other packages rely on them. There are tons of applications, and also things intended to be general purpose libraries that never get enough users.
But once your package is used by enough others that rely on it, you need a backup maintainer.
One could think of a "ladder" where packages acquire reputation/status, and from a certain point on one needs a backup maintainer.
On 09.05.2014 15:00, Alois Cochard wrote:
Does it mean you prefer not having a package in hackage than having it
without a backup maintainer?
Just think about all the packages that would not have reached hackage
with a rule like that...
On 7 May 2014 20:59, Andreas Abel <andreas.abel@ifi.lmu.de
<mailto:andreas.abel@ifi.lmu.de>> wrote:
On 07.05.2014 14:49, Roman Cheplyaka wrote:
Having backup maintainers is the answer.
http://ro-che.info/articles/__2014-02-08-my-haskell-will.__html
<http://ro-che.info/articles/2014-02-08-my-haskell-will.html>
Yes! +1
hackage should require a backup maintainer for every library package
upload.
On May 7, 2014 8:36 AM, "Roman Cheplyaka" <roma@ro-che.info
<mailto:roma@ro-che.info>> wrote:
No. In my opinion, there's no good reason why a package
should remain
broken for
more than a day, given that there are people who has
found, reported, and
fixed
the issue. All the actual work is done, now someone just
has to push a
button.
* Oliver Charles <ollie@ocharles.org.uk
<mailto:ollie@ocharles.org.uk>> [2014-05-07 13:29:40+0100]
Isn't a 4 day turn around on a pull request a little
hasty?
- ocharles
On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 8:50 AM, Roman Cheplyaka
<roma@ro-che.info <mailto:roma@ro-che.info>>
wrote:
Hi Max,
are you still maintaining the 'temporary' package?
There's a breakage waiting to be fixed (with a
patch):
https://github.com/__batterseapower/temporary/pull/__12
<https://github.com/batterseapower/temporary/pull/12>
If I don't hear from you in two days, I'll
request maintainership
and/or
fork the package.
--
Andreas Abel <>< Du bist der geliebte Mensch.
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Chalmers and Gothenburg University, Sweden
andreas.abel@gu.se
Alois Cochard