Re: [Haskell-cafe] Edit Hackage

2010-11-01 Thread Claus Reinke
Stack Overflow and Reddit are at least improvements over the traditional web forums, starting to acquire some of the features Usenet had twenty years ago. Much like Planet-style meta-blogs and RSS syndication makes it liveable to follow blogs. Very much this. I mourn Usenet's potential as

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Edit Hackage

2010-10-31 Thread Tillmann Rendel
Ketil Malde wrote: Most web-based email archives seem to suck - where can we point to a nice URL to get an overview of a -cafe thread? http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/82667 Tillmann ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Edit Hackage

2010-10-30 Thread Daniel Fischer
On Saturday 30 October 2010 03:42:27, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote: On 30 October 2010 12:22, Lauri Alanko l...@iki.fi wrote: On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 01:55:12PM -0700, Don Stewart wrote: The number of subscribers to the Haskell Reddit, for example, is double the -cafe@, and there are

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Edit Hackage

2010-10-30 Thread Ketil Malde
Daniel Fischer daniel.is.fisc...@web.de writes: On Saturday 30 October 2010 03:42:27, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote: On 30 October 2010 12:22, Lauri Alanko l...@iki.fi wrote: On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 01:55:12PM -0700, Don Stewart wrote: The number of subscribers to the Haskell Reddit, for

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Edit Hackage

2010-10-30 Thread C. McCann
On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Ketil Malde ke...@malde.org wrote: Stack Overflow and Reddit are at least improvements over the traditional web forums, starting to acquire some of the features Usenet had twenty years ago.  Much like Planet-style meta-blogs and RSS syndication makes it

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Edit Hackage

2010-10-29 Thread C. McCann
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 9:13 PM, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic ivan.miljeno...@gmail.com wrote: IIUC, [one of] the prime motivating factor[s] behind both reddit and StackOverflow is the accumulation of karma, which leads to people posting just to try and accumulate karma even if they don't know what

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Edit Hackage

2010-10-29 Thread Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
On 30 October 2010 05:51, C. McCann c...@uptoisomorphism.net wrote: Speaking of not wanting more places to keep track of, that's precisely why I rarely bother with blog comments and would find discussions on reddit preferable: it's a single place to go, and keeps things more unified and

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Edit Hackage

2010-10-29 Thread Don Stewart
ivan.miljenovic: Neither the Haskell reddit nor Stack Overflow are linked to from haskell.org and there is nothing to indicate that they are official. Also, wasn't it Don that started (and is mainly responsible) for linking to Haskell articles on reddit? They're linked from the front page.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Edit Hackage

2010-10-29 Thread Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
On 30 October 2010 09:51, Don Stewart d...@galois.com wrote: ivan.miljenovic: Neither the Haskell reddit nor Stack Overflow are linked to from haskell.org and there is nothing to indicate that they are official.  Also, wasn't it Don that started (and is mainly responsible) for linking to

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Edit Hackage

2010-10-29 Thread Don Stewart
ivan.miljenovic: On 30 October 2010 09:51, Don Stewart d...@galois.com wrote: ivan.miljenovic: Neither the Haskell reddit nor Stack Overflow are linked to from haskell.org and there is nothing to indicate that they are official.  Also, wasn't it Don that started (and is mainly

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Edit Hackage

2010-10-29 Thread C. McCann
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 6:13 PM, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic ivan.miljeno...@gmail.com wrote: So you'd prefer to have the discussion about a blog post be made distinct from the blog post itself?  Why not keep them together, also so that people finding the blog post from someplace other than reddit

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Edit Hackage

2010-10-29 Thread Lauri Alanko
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 01:55:12PM -0700, Don Stewart wrote: The number of subscribers to the Haskell Reddit, for example, is double the -cafe@, and there are comparable numbers of questions being asked on the Stack Overflow [haskell] tag, as here -- so anyone who only reads -cafe@ is already

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Edit Hackage

2010-10-29 Thread Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
On 30 October 2010 12:22, Lauri Alanko l...@iki.fi wrote: On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 01:55:12PM -0700, Don Stewart wrote: The number of subscribers to the Haskell Reddit, for example, is double the -cafe@, and there are comparable numbers of questions being asked on the Stack Overflow [haskell]

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Edit Hackage

2010-10-28 Thread Gregory Crosswhite
On 10/28/10 12:34 PM, Andrew Coppin wrote: More specifically, I copied the Cabal description from another package and then updated all the fields. Except that I forgot to update one. And now I have a package which I've erroneously placed in completely the wrong category. I am glad to hear that

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Edit Hackage

2010-10-28 Thread Don Stewart
gcross: On 10/28/10 12:34 PM, Andrew Coppin wrote: More specifically, I copied the Cabal description from another package and then updated all the fields. Except that I forgot to update one. And now I have a package which I've erroneously placed in completely the wrong category. I am

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Edit Hackage

2010-10-28 Thread Stephen Tetley
On 28 October 2010 20:59, Don Stewart d...@galois.com wrote: Status of Infrastructure questions like this are best asked on the Haskell Reddit. [SNIP] P.S. I encourage people to use the online forums: Haskell Reddit and Stack Overflow, as a lot of the question-answering activity has shifted

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Edit Hackage

2010-10-28 Thread Aleksandar Dimitrov
On Thu, 28 Oct 2010 22:44:04 +0200, Stephen Tetley stephen.tet...@gmail.com wrote: P.S. I encourage people to use the online forums: Haskell Reddit and Stack Overflow, as a lot of the question-answering activity has shifted there now, away from -cafe@ Err, Why? Having to track three places

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Edit Hackage

2010-10-28 Thread Don Stewart
stephen.tetley: On 28 October 2010 20:59, Don Stewart d...@galois.com wrote: Status of Infrastructure questions like this are best asked on the Haskell Reddit. [SNIP] P.S. I encourage people to use the online forums: Haskell Reddit and Stack Overflow, as a lot of the

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Edit Hackage

2010-10-28 Thread Daniel Fischer
On Thursday 28 October 2010 22:44:04, Stephen Tetley wrote: On 28 October 2010 20:59, Don Stewart d...@galois.com wrote: Status of Infrastructure questions like this are best asked on the Haskell Reddit. [SNIP] P.S. I encourage people to use the online forums: Haskell Reddit and Stack

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Edit Hackage

2010-10-28 Thread John Millikin
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 12:34, Andrew Coppin andrewcop...@btinternet.com wrote: Today I uploaded a package to Hackage, and rediscovered something that you already know: I'm an idiot. More specifically, I copied the Cabal description from another package and then updated all the fields. Except

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Edit Hackage

2010-10-28 Thread Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
On 29 October 2010 07:53, Daniel Fischer daniel.is.fisc...@web.de wrote: On Thursday 28 October 2010 22:44:04, Stephen Tetley wrote: On 28 October 2010 20:59, Don Stewart d...@galois.com wrote: Status of Infrastructure questions like this are best asked on the Haskell Reddit. [SNIP]