On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 18:51 -0400, Isaac Dupree wrote: > Duncan Coutts wrote: > > On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 10:38 -0400, Isaac Dupree wrote: > >> Duncan Coutts wrote: > >>> Maintainers propose their own packages, providing their own assessment > >>> against a set of criteria. > >> so if you're a random user/contributor then you have to ask your > >> favorite package's maintainer to propose their own package. > > > > That's my opinion, yes. If you think even that needs discussing then we > > can mention that when we propose it on the libs list. > > well if I was a maintainer, I might be afflicted by a sort of modesty, > and I think a couple other Haskell people can feel that too when their > users are saying "we like this". Of course it's good to make sure that > we(haskell-platform people) have maintainer's active consent, by > requiring them to "propose" it. I wonder if I can come up with a > wording that makes me happy (since I think we agree on the actual > *procedure* we should have) -- probably not really important
It's certainly fine to have multiple maintainers so if it needs a team to commit to the maintenance needed for HP inclusion then that's fine. So keen users can volunteer to help the package author and make a maintenance team. Duncan _______________________________________________ Haskell-platform mailing list Haskell-platform@projects.haskell.org http://projects.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-platform
