[Haskell-cafe] Edit Hackage

[Don Stewart]

gcross:
> On 10/28/10 12:34 PM, Andrew Coppin wrote:
>> More specifically, I copied the Cabal description from another package  
>> and then updated all the fields. Except that I forgot to update one.  
>> And now I have a package which I've erroneously placed in completely  
>> the wrong category.
>
> I am glad to hear that I am not the only one who has done this.  :-)  I  
> second the notion that it would nice to be able to tweak the meta-data  
> of a package after uploading it.
>

"Status of Infrastructure" questions like this are best asked on the
Haskell Reddit.

    http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/search?q=hackage&restrict_sr=on&sort=new

In fact, there was a recent announcement about this:

    http://cogracenotes.wordpress.com/2010/08/14/policy-on-hackage-server/

Where you can edit tags live on the new server.

-- Don

P.S. I encourage people to use the online forums: Haskell Reddit and Stack
Overflow, as a lot of the question-answering activity has shifted there
now, away from -cafe@