Re: Hackage 2

2012-09-05 Thread Erik Hesselink
On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 1:35 AM, Leon Smith wrote: > On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 4:20 AM, Erik Hesselink wrote: >> >> I think that the eventual situation should have per-package uploaders. >> It just seems to dangerous for anyone to be able to upload any >> package, especially heavily-used ones. > > I

Re: Streamlining Account Requests

2012-09-05 Thread Johan Tibell
On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 9:12 AM, Leon Smith wrote: > On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 9:57 AM, Duncan Coutts > wrote: >> >> In the new server the security is a little better, but we still want >> to have a manual step to grant uploader rights. > > > Well, my impression is that the new server has a number of

Streamlining Account Requests

2012-09-05 Thread Leon Smith
On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 9:57 AM, Duncan Coutts wrote: > In the new server the security is a little better, but we still want > to have a manual step to grant uploader rights. > Well, my impression is that the new server has a number of incomplete features that we are ignoring for now, and that

Re: Unallocated names

2012-09-05 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 10:57:42AM +0100, Ross Paterson wrote: > On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 07:22:04PM +0100, Ian Lynagh wrote: > > Hackage2 will currently complain about anything that doesn't start with > > one of: > > Algebra, Codec, Control, Data, Database, Debug, Distribution, > > DotNet,

Re: Hackage Accounts

2012-09-05 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 03:34:16PM +0200, Lars Viklund wrote: > > This chain of mails looks quite strange to me. > > Do you have some kind of ulterior motive for these inquiries? What you might be missing is that Ross handles account requests for the current Hackage server, and Leon is one of th

Re: Hackage Accounts

2012-09-05 Thread Leon Smith
Yup, Duncan is exactly correct. We currently use a social process to manage hackage. I'm part of the team that is taking over this social process from Ross Paterson, so I'm trying to understand how it worked in the past. That's my ulterior motive. :-D As I've written in another mail to this

Re: Hackage Accounts

2012-09-05 Thread Duncan Coutts
On 5 September 2012 14:34, Lars Viklund wrote: > On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 09:19:53AM -0400, Leon Smith wrote: >> Well, I guess that sort of counts as a refusal. What kinds of requests >> lead you to ask for more information, and what kinds of information have >> you asked for? >> >> On Wed, Sep

Re: Hackage Accounts

2012-09-05 Thread Lars Viklund
On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 09:19:53AM -0400, Leon Smith wrote: > Well, I guess that sort of counts as a refusal. What kinds of requests > lead you to ask for more information, and what kinds of information have > you asked for? > > On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 9:01 AM, Ross Paterson wrote: > > > On We

Re: Hackage Accounts

2012-09-05 Thread Leon Smith
Well, I guess that sort of counts as a refusal. What kinds of requests lead you to ask for more information, and what kinds of information have you asked for? Best, Leon On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 9:01 AM, Ross Paterson wrote: > On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 01:15:09PM +0100, Leon Smith wrote: > > I h

Re: Hackage Accounts

2012-09-05 Thread Ross Paterson
On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 01:15:09PM +0100, Leon Smith wrote: > I have a question for Ross Paterson, namely do you decline an account > request, and if so, what reasons do you have for declining an account > request? I haven't refused any requests, but occasionally I ask for more information and don

Re: Unallocated names

2012-09-05 Thread Ben Millwood
On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 10:57 AM, Ross Paterson wrote: > That test is copied from Hackage1. We don't have any means of allocating > the module namespace apart from squatter's rights and negotiation, > but arbitrary expansion of the top level of the hierarchy is unhelpful, > and having a warning fo

Re: Unallocated names

2012-09-05 Thread Leon Smith
On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 5:57 AM, Ross Paterson wrote: > > That test is copied from Hackage1. We don't have any means of allocating > the module namespace apart from squatter's rights and negotiation, > but arbitrary expansion of the top level of the hierarchy is unhelpful, > and having a warning f

Re: Unallocated names

2012-09-05 Thread Ross Paterson
On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 07:22:04PM +0100, Ian Lynagh wrote: > Hackage2 will currently complain about anything that doesn't start with > one of: > Algebra, Codec, Control, Data, Database, Debug, Distribution, > DotNet, Foreign, Graphics, Language, Network, Numeric, Prelude, > Sound, Syst