[Haskell-cafe] Hackage checking maintainership of packages

Petr Pudlák petr.mvd at gmail.com
Sun May 5 20:28:53 CEST 2013


I'd say:
- If a package has UNMAINTAINED (perhaps also DEPRECATED?) somewhere in its
title/description, don't do anything.
- Otherwise if the package hasn't been updated for past 3 months, send a
quarterly reminder (including the information under what conditions the
reminder is sent).



2013/5/5 Doug Burke <dburke.gw at gmail.com>

>
> On May 5, 2013 7:25 AM, "Petr Pudlák" <petr.mvd at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > on another thread there was a suggestion which perhaps went unnoticed by
> most:
> >
> >> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> >> From: Niklas Hambüchen <mail at nh2.me>
> >> Date: 2013/5/4
> >> ...
> >> I would even be happy with newhackage sending every package maintainer a
> >> quarterly question "Would you still call your project X 'maintained'?"
> >> for each package they maintain; Hackage could really give us better
> >> indications concerning this.
> >
> >
> > This sounds to me like a very good idea. It could be as simple as "If
> you consider yourself to be the maintainer of package X please just hit
> reply and send." If Hackage doesn't get an answer, it'd just would display
> some red text like "This package seems to be unmaintained since D.M.Y."
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Petr
> >
>
> For those packages that give a repository, a query could be done
> automatically to see when it was last updated. It's not the same thing as
> 'being maintained', but is less annoying for those people with many
> packages on hackage.
>
> Doug
>
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