[Haskell-cafe] Hackage checking maintainership of packages

[Petr Pudlák]

Some further ideas:

- Make the periodic maintainership reminders optional. Every developer
would be able to choose if (s)he wishes to receive them or not. I believe
many would choose to receive them.

- Maintain the last date the maintainership has been verified - either by
an upload of a new version or by explicitly by the author (like by
answering a reminder). This way, visitors would have a clear indication
what could they expect, regardless of the reminders.

- Add some estimate based on the packages that depend on this one. For
example, take the maximum of these dates for all packages depending on this
one maintained by the same author. It's very likely that if the same person
actively develops something that is based on a package, (s)he will care
about the package too, even if it hasn't been updated for a while. This
would solve "perfect stable" packages like deepseq.

- Alternatively, reminders could be human-triggered, instead of being sent
automatically. If the date is older than some bound (like those 3 months),
there could be a button like "query maintainership". If a visitor presses
it, Hackage would send the reminder to the author (if it hasn't sent one
recently, of course). This way, the reminder would be sent only for
packages that somebody is actually interested in.
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