Hello package developers, Please note our new policies for accepting entries into METADATA.jl, which take effect immediately:
1. New packages submitted for registration must have at least one tagged version. 2. The lowest package version that will be accepted is v0.0.1. *v0.0.0 is no longer permitted*. 3. All new tagged versions of packages must have a requires file, which must at a minimum contain a single line like julia 0.3 specifying a minimum version of Julia the package is expected to run on. A common mistake is to have an entry of the form julia 0.3- with the intention of specifying "version 0.3 and up". On the contrary, this line means "at least a 0.3 pre-release julia". 4. New package version tags must support at least Julia version 0.3. *0.3- (0.3 pre-releases) is no longer allowed. *Exceptions may be granted for julia 0.2 if package authors are willing to vouch that they still test that their packages work on 0.2. 5. We strongly encourage everyone to *update METADATA.jl through pull requests*, which can be generated for you automatically when using Pkg.publish(). GitHub's pull requests allow us to run basic checks on the metadata entries. All developers (especially experienced developers!) are *strongly discouraged from editing METADATA.jl directly* unless absolutely necessary. These new policies have been the result of many months of discussion to improve the quality of registered packages and the overall user experience with Julia packages. As a friendly reminder, do consult the package development section of the manual <http://julia.readthedocs.org/en/latest/manual/packages/#package-development> for guidelines for getting your package accepted into METADATA.jl.
