Hackage2 server ready for testing

[Erik Hesselink]

Hi Ian,

Looks great, thanks for the work! One question: I see the reverse
dependencies have been disabled, darcs says for 'performance
problems'. Do you have some details? Do you think it is hard to fix?

I wouldn't mind doing some permission granting for the testing period,
by the way.

Erik

On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 5:17 PM, Ian Lynagh <ian at well-typed.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> All the bugs identified in the Hackage 2 server as blockers have now
> been fixed, and I have a mirror of Hackage running here:
>     http://new-hackage.haskell.org/
>
> I suggest that we proceed with:
>
> * A 3 week testing period, to be announced on haskell@ and libraries@
> * Assuming no new blocking bugs are found which justify additional
>   testing time, disable uploads to the Hackage 1 server
> * Throw the testing Hackage 2 instance away, and make a new mirror from
>   the Hackage 1 server
> * Point hackage.haskell.org at the new Hackage 2 instance
>
>
> I think that a 3 week testing period will be sufficient as I expect most
> testing will happen in the first week or two, or the last few days, so
> any extra time is essentially wasted. I was actually initially going to
> propose 2 weeks, but given the timing of ICFP et al I think an extra
> week is justified.
>
> The reason I propose throwing away this test instance is that I think
> it's important that people are able to test uploading, and therefore
> uploading dummy packages and dummy versions should be encouraged.
>
>
> Does that plan sound reasonable to everyone?
>
> Is anyone willing to volunteer to be an admin for the new Hackage server
> please? (people need to have an admin add their account to the uploaders
> group before they can upload).
>
>
> A couple more notes:
>
> The mirror is a week or two old, so the latest package uploads won't be
> on it. I don't plan to set up continuous mirroring, as I think it may be
> more useful for people to be able to upload new versions to both servers
> themselves, for testing.
>
> The documentation builder has built (or failed to build) docs for the
> latest versions of all packages, but it's still working through older
> versions. It will therefore take up to 35mins before it notices that a
> new package has been uploaded, and builds docs for it.
>
>
> Finally, I would like to thank the Industrial Haskell Group
> (http://industry.haskell.org/) for funding this work.
>
>
> Thanks
> Ian
> --
> Ian Lynagh, Haskell Consultant
> Well-Typed LLP, http://www.well-typed.com/
>
>
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