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 muc

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 Haskell-Cafe@ha

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Edit Hackage

2010-10-30 Thread C. McCann
On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Ketil Malde 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 liveable to follow

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Edit Hackage

2010-10-30 Thread Ketil Malde
Daniel Fischer writes: > On Saturday 30 October 2010 03:42:27, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote: >> On 30 October 2010 12:22, Lauri Alanko 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 [...] >>> In sh

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 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

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Edit Hackage

2010-10-29 Thread Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
On 30 October 2010 12:22, Lauri Alanko 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] tag, a

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 alrea

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Edit Hackage

2010-10-29 Thread C. McCann
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 6:13 PM, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic 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 > (e.g. planet.haskell.or

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Edit Hackage

2010-10-29 Thread Don Stewart
ivan.miljenovic: > On 30 October 2010 09:51, Don Stewart 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)

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Edit Hackage

2010-10-29 Thread Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
On 30 October 2010 09:51, Don Stewart 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 Haskell a

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

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Edit Hackage

2010-10-29 Thread Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
On 30 October 2010 05:51, C. McCann 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 consistent than whatever co

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Edit Hackage

2010-10-29 Thread C. McCann
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 9:13 PM, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic 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 > they're talking about

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Edit Hackage

2010-10-28 Thread Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
On 29 October 2010 07:53, Daniel Fischer wrote: > On Thursday 28 October 2010 22:44:04, Stephen Tetley wrote: >> On 28 October 2010 20:59, Don Stewart wrote: >> > "Status of Infrastructure" questions like this are best asked on the >> > Haskell Reddit. >> >> [SNIP] >> >> > P.S. I encourage people

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Edit Hackage

2010-10-28 Thread John Millikin
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 12:34, Andrew Coppin 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 that I forgot to updat

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 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 Ov

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Edit Hackage

2010-10-28 Thread Don Stewart
stephen.tetley: > On 28 October 2010 20:59, Don Stewart 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-answe

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Edit Hackage

2010-10-28 Thread Aleksandar Dimitrov
On Thu, 28 Oct 2010 22:44:04 +0200, Stephen Tetley 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 for information rather t

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Edit Hackage

2010-10-28 Thread Stephen Tetley
On 28 October 2010 20:59, Don Stewart 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 there >

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.

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

[Haskell-cafe] Edit Hackage

2010-10-28 Thread Andrew Coppin
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 that I forgot to update one. And now I have a package which I've erroneously pla