[Haskell-cafe] Hackage checking maintainership of packages

[Lyndon Maydwell]

Don't underestimate how greatly people appreciate being saved a couple of
minutes!


On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 8:01 PM, Niklas Hambüchen <mail at nh2.me> wrote:

> On 06/05/13 17:46, Tillmann Rendel wrote:
> > So what about this: Hackage could try to automatically collect and
> > display information about the development status of packages that allow
> > potential users to *guess*
>
> In my opinion, that's what we have now.
>
> Obtaining the info in the four points you mention from their respective
> sources usually takes less than a minute in sum - hackage saving me that
> minute would give me little added value.
>
> Having the metrics you mention is nice, but still they are just metrics
> and say little the only thing that's important:
>
>    Is there a human who commits themselves to this package?
>
> > I like the idea of displaying additional info about the status of
> > package development, but I don't like the idea of annoying hard-working
> > package maintainers with emails about their perfect packages
>
> I really think this is not too big of a deal, getting one email every 3
> months and clicking a few checkboxes.
>
> Probably fits into one cabal update.
>
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