Re: Package spam :-)

19 Jun 2008


      gwern0:
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On 2008.06.18 13:11:25 -0700, Don Stewart  scribbled 1.4K characters:
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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.
Adrian, as these packages simply fork needlessly, or aren't of suitable
quality, I think you can ask Ross to remove them.
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-- Don
I'd like to note that these were not 'random forks'. JPB, the
collections maintainer, apparently he split them up last year, listing
himself and Hey as maintainers of various packages. All I did was fix
up the usual Cabal breakage and re-upload when he accepted my patches;
otherwise they are as they were.
Why not let the package maintainer upload? Especially since
we've now duplicate avltree and cordering libraries, this seems to not
have been a useful move.

-- Don