[Haskell-cafe] Hackage 2 now available for beta testing

[Andreas Abel]

On 09.09.2013 20:24, Duncan Coutts wrote:
> Well-Typed and the
Industrial Haskell Group (IHG) are very pleased
> to announce that
Hackage 2 is now available for public beta testing.
> 
> [new features]:
http://beta.hackage.haskell.org/new-features
> 
> Package "candidates".
You may have noticed that package versions are
> often uploaded in quick
succession -- sometimes just minutes apart --
> because a mistake is
only noticed after the author uploaded. This
> feature lets you upload a
"candidate", giving it a URL that others
> can download from, and gives
an opportunity for build bots and
> documentation builders to try the
package out. Once the author is
> satisfied then they can publish to the
main package index. We think
> this feature is about 90% complete. See
issue #41.>

That sound so good! Thanks for putting out this
feature!

Andreas 

On 2013-09-09 20:24, Duncan Coutts wrote: 

>
Well-Typed and the Industrial Haskell Group (IHG) are very pleased to
>
announce that Hackage 2 is now available for public beta testing. The
>
plan is to do the final switchover in late September, to coincide
> with
ICFP.
> 
> http://beta.hackage.haskell.org/ [1]
> 
> Read on for details
of how to help with the public beta, an overview
> of the new features
and what the IHG has been doing to help.
> 
> Support from the
Industrial Haskell Group
> =========================================
>

> The IHG is a consortium of companies that rely on Haskell. The IHG
>
members have funded the effort to get Hackage 2 up to feature parity
>
and get it ready for the switchover. The IHG funded this effort
because
> while the volunteer effort got us the "first 90%" of the way
there
> (including adding a number of new features) there was still the
"last
> 90%" to do to get it production ready.
> 
> The IHG members
decided to fund Hackage 2 not just because they are
> good citizens, but
out of enlightened self-interest. Hackage has over
> 5000 packages
written by over 1000 people -- including the world's best
> Haskell
developers. This is a massive resource. The IHG members
> recognise that
improvements to the tools and infrastructure that the
> community uses
helps the community to produce more and better code.
> This is a benefit
to everyone in the community -- including the
> commercial users.
> 
>
The IHG is keen to increase its membership so that more resources can
>
be dedicated to improving the Haskell development platform. If your
>
organisation relies on Haskell in some way then you may want to
>
consider joining. See the IHG website for more details or contact
>
info at industry.haskell.org.
> 
> [IHG website]:
http://industry.haskell.org/ [2]
> 
> Despite the help of the IHG in
getting to this point, Hackage is a
> community project, and its success
depends on the community maintaining
> and further improving the new
server. The code is now on github so it
> is easier to contribute, and
now that the server is live there is more
> immediate gratification for
volunteers contributing fixes and new
> features.
> 
> Public beta
>
===========
> 
> We would like to encourage you to take part in the
public beta testing.
> We need help both from package authors as well as
other users of the
> site.
> 
> Please report any problems you find
using the issue tracker on the
> hackage-server github site.
> 
> [issue
tracker]: https://github.com/haskell/hackage-server/issues [3]
> [github
site]: https://github.com/haskell/hackage-server [4]
> 
> We are
mirroring packages from the old server (every 30min) so it is
> suitable
to use as your main hackage server with some caveats: we are
> allowing
package authors to upload (as well as doing the mirroring) so
> you may
find a slightly different set of packages on this server.
> 
> If you
are a package author then you are welcome to poke about and
> upload
packages. We have imported user accounts from the old server
> (except
for a small number of early adopters of the original server who
> will
need to contact an administrator). Note that before we do the
> final
switchover we will *delete everything* from the beta instance
> and do a
fresh import from the old hackage server.
> 
> Configuring
cabal-install
> -------------------------
> 
> Edit your ~/.cabal/config
file. Comment-out the existing "remote-repo"
> line near the top of the
file and add in a new one like this:
> 
> --remote-repo:
hackage.haskell.org:http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive [5]
> 
>
remote-repo: beta.hackage.haskell.org:http://beta.hackage.haskell.org/
[1]
> 
> New features
> ============
> 
> Though our main priority has
been feature parity so that we can switch
> over, volunteers have
contributed several new features, including
> better package search, a
new site theme, improved security, the ability
> to fix package
dependencies after a release, changelogs, and a
> REST-style
interface.
> 
> See the beta site for more details on these new
features, plus details
> of other features that are partially
implemented or are in need of
> improvement.
> 
> [new features]:
http://beta.hackage.haskell.org/new-features [6]
> 
> Contributing to
the development
> ===============================
> 
> The code is on
github and we welcome pull requests.
> 
> There are open tickets
describing existing bugs and features that we
> want or that are in need
of improvement. Help on any of these would be
> greatly appreciated.
>

> There is some developer and user documentation on the github wiki,
>
including a quick guide to getting your own server instance up and
>
running.
> 
> You can ask questions on the cabal-devel mailing list or
on IRC in
> the #hackage channel on freenode.
> 
> [code]:
https://github.com/haskell/hackage-server [4]
> [github wiki]:
https://github.com/haskell/hackage-server/wiki [7]
> [cabal-devel]:
http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cabal-devel [8]

-- 
Andreas
Abel <>< Du bist der geliebte Mensch. 

Theoretical Computer Science,
University of Munich http://www.tcs.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/~abel/



Links:
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[1] http://beta.hackage.haskell.org/
[2]
http://industry.haskell.org/
[3]
https://github.com/haskell/hackage-server/issues
[4]
https://github.com/haskell/hackage-server
[5]
http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive
[6]
http://beta.hackage.haskell.org/new-features
[7]
https://github.com/haskell/hackage-server/wiki
[8]
http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cabal-devel
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