The Hackage Trustees are seeking volunteers to help with the creation of new user accounts. It’s not a lot of work - around five minutes per day - and it helps keep Hackage spam-free.
Because Hackage is immutable, spam poses an especially troublesome problem. To reduce the risk of spam, there is a manual approval step to enabling package uploads for an account. We’re looking for some volunteers to help with this. Uploaders are asked to send a link to their Haskell source repository, and approving an uploader consists of checking that it’s their repository, that it’s not spam, and perhaps a quick email follow-up if something doesn’t seem quite right. Volunteers will receive email templates and training.
If you’re interested, please write to hackage-trustees@haskell.org.
Thank you!
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