[Haskell-cafe] Hackage checking maintainership of packages

[Felipe Almeida Lessa]

Just checking the repo wouldn't work.  It may still have some activity
but not be maintained and vice-versa.

On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 2:19 PM, Doug Burke <dburke.gw at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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-- 
Felipe.