[Haskell-cafe] Hackage checking maintainership of packages

[Lyndon Maydwell]

But what if the package is already perfect?

Jokes aside, I think that activity alone wouldn't be a good indicator.


On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 9:59 AM, Conrad Parker <conrad at metadecks.org> wrote:

> On 6 May 2013 09:42, Felipe Almeida Lessa <felipe.lessa at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Just checking the repo wouldn't work.  It may still have some activity
> > but not be maintained and vice-versa.
>
> ok, how about this: if the maintainer feels that their repo and
> maintenance activities are non-injective they can additionally provide
> an http-accessible URL for the maintenance activity. Hackage can then
> do an HTTP HEAD request on that URL and use the Last-Modified response
> header as an indication of the last time of maintenance activity. I'm
> being a bit tongue-in-cheek, but actually this would allow you to
> point hackage to a blog as evidence of maintenance activity.
>
> I like the idea of just pinging the code repo.
>
> Conrad.
>
> > 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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