I do think it's a real problem even for seasoned haskellers. I don't have problems in remembering which packages I should use for the things I've already used before recently, but I need to search Hackage just as everyone else as soon as I need to do something new.
I also agree that this is more of a social problem not a tooling one. Hackage would just provide a tool for helping this kind of social interaction. On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 1:25 PM, Carter Schonwald <carter.schonw...@gmail.com > wrote: > is that really a problem though? > > Who's problem are we trying to solve? Is this being proposed to help > seasoned haskellers, or make getting started easier for new folks? > > those are two VERY different problems. Also many of the maintainers for > heavily used packages are incredibly busy as is, do they need to keep track > of even *more* email? I'd hope not. > > In some respects, just having the hackage2 deps and revdeps stats is a > good proxy for how likely a package is to be well maintained. > > > On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 8:45 AM, Niklas Hambüchen <m...@nh2.me> wrote: > >> Well, that's what the "once every 3 months" is good for. >> >> On Mon 06 May 2013 20:34:13 SGT, Tobias Dammers wrote: >> > The problem is that people tend to (truthfully) check such a box, then >> > stop maintaining the package for whatever reasons, and never bother >> > unchecking the box. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Haskell-Cafe mailing list >> Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org >> http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > > -- Felipe.
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