[Haskell-cafe] Hackage checking maintainership of packages

Joe Quinn headprogrammingczar at gmail.com
Mon May 6 00:24:08 CEST 2013


And we can have something on hackage that does this check automatically! 
And we can put "unmaintained" in the description! And then we can leave 
it unmaintained!

"Unmaintained" should have its own flag, I think...

On 5/5/2013 2:28 PM, Petr Pudlák wrote:
> 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 <mailto:dburke.gw at gmail.com>>
>
>
>     On May 5, 2013 7:25 AM, "Petr Pudlák" <petr.mvd at gmail.com
>     <mailto: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 <mailto: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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