Hackage 2 status

[Ian Lynagh]

On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 08:14:01PM +0100, Duncan Coutts wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-07-02 at 12:25 +0100, Ian Lynagh wrote:
> 
> > Conclusion
> > ----------
> > 
> > I think the following are the blockers for deploying Hackage 2:
> > 
> > * #911 upload perms; may be good enough already
> > * #916 check URLs are OK
> > * #918 build haddock (and HsColour) docs

I forgot that the bug tracker had moved to github. So actually these
are now:

* #901 upload perms; may be good enough already
* #906 check URLs are OK
* #908 build haddock (and HsColour) docs

and are the tickets marked "important" or "urgent" on
    https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues?labels=hackage2&page=1&state=open

> > * Show source respository on package pages
> 
> Should be easy to port that from the old code.

I've filed #965 (hackage2, important) for that.

> > * Support the existing "Distributions" files, and show info on package pages
> 
> I advocated at the time the feature was added that it should be done
> differently so that the hackage server does not poll some url, but
> people in charge of distros push instead. I think it would not be a
> blocker to not implement the distribution info system as it is now and
> when eventually spending the time to implement it, switch to doing it in
> a more sensible way.

OK, I won't treat that as a blocker then.

> > (plus enough testing to give us confidence in it, of course).
> 
> One of the main things here is adding tests that the database
> dump/restore mechanism round trips correctly.

#966 (hackage2, important) filed.

> Something to keep in mind is memory usage.

Will do, but currently I don't think this is a blocker for deploying
2.0.


Thanks
Ian