[Haskell-cafe] Hackage checking maintainership of packages

[Ilya Portnov]

Hi Cafe.


> I have thought that a more interesting metric might be to send the
> maintainer an email when their package stops building automatically 
> on
> hackage.

I think, this is "must have" feature for new hackage. If error was 
occured during build, send email to maintainer: "Error occured while 
building your package <name> with GHC <version>. Build log: <...>. If 
you are to fix it in a week [month?], please send reply for this 
message". If answer was received, then do not send such notifications 
every time during specified period (say, a week or month). If after end 
of this period, package still could not be build, then send next 
notification, maybe with additional question: "If you are to maintain 
this package, please send a reply for this message"...

With any scenario, "build failed" notifications is a "must have" 
feature.

WBR, Ilya Portnov.