| These packages are unmaintained:
| 
| Win32          Volunteer needed
| xhtml          Volunteer needed
| 
| I think it would be a good idea to change the .cabal file for them and
| set the maintainer field to be either 'Unmaintained
| <[email protected]>' or 'Volunteer Needed <[email protected]>'.

Yes I agree.

| The xhtml library is also apparently still maintained as a darcs repo
| with a git mirror... ect. Why don't we just have a single git repo as
| the primary if we are now the ones maintaining it?

That seems sensible to me.  Why is xhtml a core library anyway?  Does Haddock 
rely on it or something?

| Also, the 'filepath' package's .cabal file says Neil Mitchell is the
| maintainer but it seems GHC HQ is the maintainer. Should I change the
| .cabal file here as well?

It's not listed on http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Library_submissions as a 
core library.  Why do you think GHC HQ is the maintainer?  Don't we just get it 
from Hackage and  Neil?

| Finally, many of the pure git repos (ones that aren't a mirror of a
| darcs repo) still contain a .darcs-boring file. I assume this is just
| left over trash so would like to remove. Is this OK?

That sounds sensible.

Everything I say is subject to what Ian/Simon say.

Now that you raise the matter I realise that I have no clue what defines the 
"Core Libraries" of http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Library_submissions. I 
thought perhaps they were simply the libraries that GHC depends on, but that's 
not true -- GHC depends on other libraries too 
http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Commentary/Libraries, and we seem to 
call those the "Boot libraries".

So what makes the core package core packages?!

Simon

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