On Tue, Aug 21, 2012, Mark Lentczner wrote:
Please see the process for [Adding Packages](http://trac.haskell.org/haskell-platform/wiki/AddingPackages).
Outstanding work...
Just to clarify: Since Mark referenced the policy page, I assume that means we need to adhere to it at least to some degree before a package can be added to the platform. If so, there must be a proposal page on the Trac Wiki before we can consider a package. Therefore, there is only ONE package so far that is a candidate: async. A proposal page can be created by anyone, not just the package maintainer. So if you are in favor of a package other than async, you might better spend your time working on a wiki page instead of "voting" for a non-proposal. All that said, it seems to me that we might not need quite so much formal process for each package addition. If there is serious discussion on these lists, I personally would be willing to entrust the final decision to a benevolent dictator. We could save the formal process for periodic selection of the dictator. A number of open source projects work in this way. Thanks, Yitz