Why not ask volunteers to join the ArchHaskell team? -- Rémy.
2010/10/8, Lukáš Jirkovský <[email protected]>: > On 8 October 2010 00:13, Peter Simons <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi Xyne, >> >> > I'm reluctant to orphan packages from the Arch Haskell group because >> > it's an "official" group tasked with managing Haskell packages >> > globally across the repos and the AUR. >> >> I am sorry, but I have had this discussion on this list too many times >> already. I don't care to discuss this topic again. >> >> haskell-numeric-prelude and haskell-convertible-text are both out of >> date. I am willing to maintain both packages. Do do that, however, I >> need a TU to orphan them so that I can take over ownership. If that is >> not an option for some reason, then that's fine too. Do whatever you >> think is right. >> >> Take care, >> Peter >> > > +1. This topic is brought up here too many times. We should be glad > that there still are people willing to maintain Haskell packages > actively. > > Now the Arch Haskell has a monopoly for all haskell packages and > frankly I don't see any advantage of it. In my opinion we should break > the monopoly and allow the users to maintain Haskell packages too. > It's reasonable to orphan packages which are out-of-date for a long > time. > > Lukas >
