[arch-haskell] collaborative HABS maintenance

[Magnus Therning]

On 15/01/11 11:41, Peter Simons wrote:
> Hi Leif,
>
>> There's an awful lot of packages in that dropped list that I use. I could
>> maintain PKGBUILDs for them myself, either on HABS or AUR directly.
>
> that would be really great. Yes, please help us maintain those packages!
>
> The contents of the HABS tree determines what goes into the binary
> repository. If you'd like to see your packages included in there, then
> HABS is the way to go. Please note that we upload the HABS packages to
> AUR, too. If you prefer to maintain the packages on AUR, though, then
> just let us know; we'll orphan them so that you can take them over.
>
> Generally speaking, we need to figure out how to maintain the HABS tree
> collaboratively, but an obvious way to do it would be the following
> procedure:
>
>  (1) Fork 'archhaskell/habs' on Github.
>
>  (2) Modify the PKGBUILDs as you see fit.
>
>  (3) Ensure that everything compiles by running 'makeworld'.
>
>  (4) Create a pull request to have your changes merged back.
>
> Magnus and I would then pull the changes, run the necessary re-builds,
> and copy the binary packages to the server so that everyone else gets
> them, too.
>
> The beauty of this scheme is that basically *everyone* can contribute
> patches and updates in an efficient and transparent manner, and everyone
> else can access those changes without having to wait for Magnus or me to
> do anything. If we are too slow for your taste, then just set up your
> own binary repository! :-)

I have just one thing to add to this.  We are more than happy to hand out
commit access straight to the archhaskell/habs repo in the future.  But
please
follow Peter's suggestion first for a few updates.

/M

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