[Haskell-cafe] Hackage checking maintainership of packages

[Ozgun Ataman]

+1. I would be more than happy to receive such an email every 3 months and quickly scan the page to update the "maintained" status for each of the packages where I'm marked as the maintainer.

One modification I would make is to persist the checked state across emails. They should all be unchecked in the very first email for a given user. Later emails should preload the previous submission, i.e. the current state, so the user doesn't have to do a bunch of work if nothing is changed. That could get annoying for people who maintain 10s of packages on Hackage. This is obvious, but that page should also be accessible through some "My Profile" page so that I don't have to wait until I get the email if I want to modify a status.

I also wonder if it might be worth it to have a little bit more detail than just "maintained" and "not maintained" as possible flags. Something like the following would be nice (I'm sure there are better names; I just don't have the time right now) :

- Actively Developed (Meaning: The package is alive, it's a priority and it's actively improved)
- Maintained (Meaning: I make sure it doesn't break, semantics are preserved but no major enhancements)
- Life Support (Meaning: I just keep it compiling with no effort towards correctness, i.e. use with caution)
- Deprecated/Unmaintained



On Monday, May 6, 2013 at 10:55 PM, Dan P. wrote:

> On Monday 06 May 2013 14:34:13 Tobias Dammers wrote:
> > The problem is that people tend to (truthfully) check such a box, then
> > stop maintaining the package for whatever reasons, and never bother
> > unchecking the box.
> > 
> 
> 
> I think there should be just one mail per maintainer mail address, not per 
> package. The notification mail should provide a link to a page, that shows all 
> packages maintained by this user (mail address). Every checkbox should be 
> unchecked by default whether there is activity in the repo or not. This way, 
> the maintainers wouldn't get annoyed by hackage mail spam and to check a 
> couple of checkboxes just takes a few minutes.
> 
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