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It's more subtle than that. Sure, Stack is OSS and all that. But Stack's developers have a vision of their own how Stack and Stackage (and by extension the Hask
by HaskellMuppet 10y ago
It's more subtle than that. Sure, Stack is OSS and all that. But Stack's developers have a vision of their own how Stack and Stackage (and by extension the Haskell ecosystem) are supposed to work. They may even make Stack rely on services controlled/hosted exclusively by FPC rather than a neutral entity. And they will reject feature-requests or PRs which don't fit their agenda rather than because you didn't pay them enough. As long as Stack doesn't add any essential functionality over Cabal which would make a package unbuildable with plain Cabal we're good.
- lallysingh 10y ago> And they will reject feature-requests or PRs which don't fit their agenda rather than because you didn't pay them enough. Attribution? And frankly, couldn't you fork stack?
- HaskellMuppet 10y agoSure, I could fork Stack and implement features I consider important. But how do I get my Stack fork advertized on haskell-lang.org to reach as many people as possible?
- tome 10y agoYou can freely write your own website, just like the creators of haskell-lang.org did.
- HaskellMuppet 10y agoand how do I get people to notice my haskell-lang.org fork?
- tome 10y agoSame way the haskell-lang.org team got people to notice it.
- HaskellMuppet 10y agoYou're implying everyone's equal. But the fact is that the haskell-lang.org team is made up almost exclusively high-profile Haskell developers who everybody knows already, including backing from a commercial entity which can promote it via their company site, as well as a book author who can promote haskell-lang.org via his new book. So while anybody could just do what the haskell-lang.org team did, it wouldn't have the same impact/effectiveness without a comparable endorsement.
- tome 10y agoSo, some of the most high-profile Haskellers who have created vast amounts of Haskell software and documentation have started a new initiative and you, you're ... complaining?
- HaskellMuppet 10y agoCan you restate your argument more clearly please? I'd like to respond, but you're not making it easy.
- dllthomas 10y agoI think the assertion is that these particular people have a privileged position primarily because of their high quality contributions to the community, and the argument is that this is fairly appropriate.