On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 09:44:03AM -0400, Andrew Pennebaker wrote: > Could we add an HTML form for creating new Hackage accounts? Right now, our > community is small enough that emailing r...@soi.city.ac.uk and waiting for > a manual response isn't too bad of a problem, but as we grow, it would be > nice for these sorts of things to be handled by a server, like with > RubyGems and NPM.
IMHO, a more pressing issue is SSL uploads and package signing. As it stands, anyone with a Hackage account can upload a new version of any given package, and some wire-sniffing is enough to reveal a legit user's password. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
