Hi,
On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 05:54:33PM -0500, Gershom B wrote:
> In the meantime, as a short term measure, we have changed new account
> registration policies on hackage.
>
> Users can still register as before, but new users do _not_ have upload
> rights until they explicitly request them and
I feel that this is the wrong direction to take and will add more burden on
people that we shouldn't be adding additional burden to. It's also the
wrong "optics".
I just had a quick squizz at Hackage with a simple PR you'll be able to
remove the incentives for this behaviour.
Add "nofollow" to
As some people have seen, a spammer has started to create accounts on
hackage to upload fake packages, in order to use their
package-descriptions for linkspam. We'll be working to clean-up the
package-index from this spam, and the accounts have been disabled.
Further, we'll need to decide on some
