Hi Jan,
Submitting devel:languages:haskell (or devel:languages:perl:CPAN) unattended-ly is worrying.
devel:languages:haskell is a curated package set that's compiled and maintained specifically with the goal of providing a stable subset of Hackage (the equivalent of CPAN in the Haskell ecosystem) that's both robust, well-tested, and reliable for use in commercial products. The LTS package set on which d:l:h is based is hugely popular among Haskell developers and it is the de facto standard for developers involved in non-trivial projects. Releases of LTS Haskell undergo extensive quality controls, i.e. there are comprehensive test builds, regression test suites, a semi-automatic system for reporting issues to the respective upstream package authors, and much more. Generally speaking, the quality of most of most of those packages is amazing, and many popular software products like git-annex, yesod, etc. are built on top of that infrastructure. Having that code available in openSUSE is an extremely useful service to our users, and the availability of that infrastructure is certainly going to attract new users who would previously not consider openSUSE because it was lacking comprehensive support for LTS Haskell.
I find it highly questionable to submit every possible bitrotten Hello World module on the planet that has ever been made. That is certainly what it feels like.
I understand that the sheer number of submissions must feel scary to everyone who's involved in the package review process. Please know, however, that the work you're doing is extremely valuable for openSUSE, for the Haskell community, and for the free software community as a whole. The effort we have all dedicated to distributing that software to our users has already made a huge difference, i.e. we've found literally hundreds of bugs in packages, package descriptions, licensing term declarations, etc. and those issues have been *fixed* because of the work we're doing. There is absolutely no doubt that our combined efforts here are very meaningful. Best regards, Peter -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org