On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 9:39 PM, Michael Snoyman <michael@snoyman.com> wrote:

You talk about voting on the policy as if that's the natural thing to do. When did we vote to accept the policy in the first place? I don't remember ever putting my name down as "I agree, this makes sense." Talking about voting, violating, complying, etc, in a completely open system like Hackage, makes no sense, and is why your comments come off as an appeal to authority.

Michael, where do I start. This policy was written and put into place in October 2007, based on an earlier proposal by Bulat Ziganshin from 2006. Simon Marlow wrote a draft on the wiki, the matter was discussed on haskell-cafe@, in #ghc, on the wiki, and presumably in person. Consensus was reached and the policy has been periodically updated by the community since. I don't want to "appeal to authority" here, but from the logs it's clear that the people involved were Simon, Duncan, Ian, Don, etc., i.e. the people actually responsible for building and running all the crap we're talking about in the first place, including Hackage itself.

I know it furthers your argument to question the policy's legitimacy, and I'm sorry consensus was reached without your agreement when it was drafted, but it wasn't dropped from the sky by unaccountable people just to inconvenience you.

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Gregory Collins <greg@gregorycollins.net>