[Haskell-cafe] Hackage checking maintainership of packages

[Ilya Portnov]

07.05.2013 14:21, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic пишет:
> On 7 May 2013 17:36, Ilya Portnov<portnov at iportnov.ru>  wrote:
>> 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:
>
> Except that there are various reasons a package won't build on Hackage:
>
> * Temporary glitch with another Haskell dependency (e.g. package Foo
> depends upon Bar-x.*; maintainer of Bar uploads a new point release of
> Bar that fails to build just before Foo's maintainer uploads the new
> version, thus the build server picks the buggy version of Bar and thus
> the new version of Foo fails to build).
>
> * Requires a foreign library that isn't installed on the Hackage build server.
>
> * OS-dependent.
>

Anyway, if package does not build, only maintainer can know why and what 
to do with it. As for OS- and environment-dependent packages, it would 
be nice to let maintainer mark package as "not buildable", so that 
hackage should not try to build it.

WBR, Ilya Portnov.