On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 7:38 AM, Magnus Therning <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 1:47 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> What do you mean with "they don't care"? Why don't you try and help, > >> instead of reinventing the wheal? > > > > By "they don't care", I mean that, over the last two months, the mailing > list > > has seen only three messages from anyone with commit rights to the > > arch-haskell repo. You may note that I and another member of the list > *have* > > offered to help [1][2] and got no response. Given the rarity of updates > to > > the arch-haskell repo and my unbridled hatred for trying to reverse > engineer > > undocumented processes that SHOULD be documented, I figured my needs > would be > > more expeditiously filled by taking matters into my own hands. > > I am very sorry for not having responded to [1]. I had planned to do > it, but forgot about it. As for [2] I didn't understand that as an > email that I actually needed to weigh in on, I simply agreed with what > it says. Apparently I got that one completely wrong. > Indeed. On such a low traffic list it does not hurt to voice your agreement explicitly and loudly. A silent nod is indistinguishable from a delivery failure. > > > In retrospect, saying "they don't care" was overzealous on my part. It > is, > > however, evident that the powers-that-be don't have time to maintain the > repo > > in a way that is useful to me, so I fixed the problem for myself (which, > you > > may note, is how the open source community works: the source speaks, > > do-ocracy, etc, etc). > > > > So I'll continue tinkering with my solution and, when it is sufficiently > > robust, I hope to release it to a wider audience. And yes, there will be > > more-than-adequate documentation. It's possible I may get bored or run > into > > an obstacle I'm too lazy to overcome or be introduced to a glorious > extant > > solution, in which case I'll convert. But until then, this is what > solves my > > problems better than anything else I know of. That's kinda how the open > > source model works. > > That sounds good, it would however be interesting to find out what > your criteria is (what you are looking for) and how your tool > satisfies them. > On this point, I had a need for haskell-http-conduit so I went ahead and spent a few hours learning about cblrepo, forking habs, adding the package and all its dependencies, making sure it worked for me, and submitting a pull request. There has still been no response to that pull request. But luckily I also had the idea of writing to the mailing list, and Fabio kindly eventually replied that he already provided haskell-http-conduit in the [haskell-extra] repo, so now I am using that instead. By the way is there any way I could have found out about [haskell-extra] without writing to the list or scouring its archives? It would be a good thing to put on the README for habs.git. Meanwhile, I'm going to put a link to it on the wiki. > > /M > > -- > Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 > email: [email protected] jabber: [email protected] > twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus > > _______________________________________________ > arch-haskell mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/arch-haskell >
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