<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 7:38 AM, Magnus Therning <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:magnus@therning.org" target="_blank">magnus@therning.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 1:47 AM, <<a href="mailto:tam@hiddenrock.com">tam@hiddenrock.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> What do you mean with "they don't care"? Why don't you try and help,<br>
>> instead of reinventing the wheal?<br>
><br>
> By "they don't care", I mean that, over the last two months, the mailing list<br>
> has seen only three messages from anyone with commit rights to the<br>
> arch-haskell repo. You may note that I and another member of the list *have*<br>
> offered to help [1][2] and got no response. Given the rarity of updates to<br>
> the arch-haskell repo and my unbridled hatred for trying to reverse engineer<br>
> undocumented processes that SHOULD be documented, I figured my needs would be<br>
> more expeditiously filled by taking matters into my own hands.<br>
<br>
</div>I am very sorry for not having responded to [1]. I had planned to do<br>
it, but forgot about it. As for [2] I didn't understand that as an<br>
email that I actually needed to weigh in on, I simply agreed with what<br>
it says. Apparently I got that one completely wrong.<br></blockquote><div><br>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.<br>
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<div class="im"><br>
> In retrospect, saying "they don't care" was overzealous on my part. It is,<br>
> however, evident that the powers-that-be don't have time to maintain the repo<br>
> in a way that is useful to me, so I fixed the problem for myself (which, you<br>
> may note, is how the open source community works: the source speaks,<br>
> do-ocracy, etc, etc).<br>
><br>
> So I'll continue tinkering with my solution and, when it is sufficiently<br>
> robust, I hope to release it to a wider audience. And yes, there will be<br>
> more-than-adequate documentation. It's possible I may get bored or run into<br>
> an obstacle I'm too lazy to overcome or be introduced to a glorious extant<br>
> solution, in which case I'll convert. But until then, this is what solves my<br>
> problems better than anything else I know of. That's kinda how the open<br>
> source model works.<br>
<br>
</div>That sounds good, it would however be interesting to find out what<br>
your criteria is (what you are looking for) and how your tool<br>
satisfies them.<br></blockquote><div><br>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.<br>
There has still been no response to that pull request.<br>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.<br>
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.<br>Meanwhile, I'm going to put a link to it on the wiki.<br>
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