[Haskell-cafe] Getting the haddocks back (was: documentation build failing in hackage?)

[Mateusz Kowalczyk]

On 10/13/2014 04:25 PM, Rogan Creswick wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 4:50 AM, Mateusz Kowalczyk <fuuzetsu at fuuzetsu.co.uk>
> wrote:
>>
>> The biggest problem is that there is no official statement as to why the
>> builds stopped and an estimate of when they are coming back.
>>
> 
> I agree!
> 
> My understanding (which is at /least/ 2nd or 3rd hand) is that the doc
> builds were turned off intentionally because it was a security issue, and
> that they are unlikely to come back.
> 
> Now, assuming that is the case, how can we solve the "there is no
> documentation" issue?  Some ideas to kick-start discussion:
> 
>  - Provide an option to include haddocks in the sdist bundle, and extract
> them on Hackage for display.
>  - Add a 'cabal uploadHaddock'
>  - Run all haddock builds in a VM/docker container / etc.. that mitigates
> the security concerns.
>  - ???
> 
> --Rogan
> 

What I heard is that it's the combination of the recent server migration
and then running out of disk space. It seems that whoever I ask, they
always have heard from someone else…

AFAIK there is some movement towards having ‘cabal uploadHaddock’ already.

-- 
Mateusz K.