[aur-general] Package disown request for haskell-platform

[Hilton Medeiros]

On Fri, 28 May 2010 16:11:29 +0200
Alexander Rødseth <rodseth at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Thanks for a well-written post, Peter.
> 
> 2010/5/27 Ionut Biru <biru.ionut at gmail.com>:
> > do you want to became a TU and maintain correctly in community?
> 
> They way things are done in AUR, where packages are orhpaned and then
> maintained by volunteers, is a system that seems to work.
> The quality of the AUR packages can be so-so, but they don't go
> unmaintained or broken for long if there are enough people that care.
> I'm sure there are more than enough people that care about Haskell, as
> it is an alluring language that carries with it a promise to be
> theoretically sound.
> 
> Changing the focus from finding a general solution to what Peter might
> choose to do does not seem construcive to me.
> Not handling Haskell-packages in a special non-maintained way would be
> more constructive.
> I don't think a one-man-army Arch Haskell Team will improve the
> situation, no matter how clever that person may be.
> 
> Best regards,
>    Alexander Rødseth

This should be the place to discuss this:
http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/arch-haskell

It doesn't seem to be unmaintained.

Cheers.