[Haskell-cafe] is it normal for docs to be pending for 24 hours?

[Gershom B]

As an update -- the builder had a few other issues besides disk-space
in terms of getting a better retry policy in place, and properly
prioritizing new over older packages, etc. I think as of this morning
they're finally all worked through and it seems to be slowly chugging
through the backlog in a reasonable order, prioritizing new
uploads.I'll be checking in on the logs daily for the time being to
make sure it does't seem to be getting stuck.

If your docs haven't built and you're impatient (understandably so!),
please don't bump your package version to kick the priority -- that'll
just put more metadata on the server we don't need. Instead, you can
build and upload your own docs as in this sample shell script:

https://github.com/ekmett/lens/blob/master/scripts/hackage-docs.sh

Best,
Gershom


On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 11:43 AM, Gershom B <gershomb at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sorry — the builder for docs has been in rough shape and we’re working on it. In this case it got stuck due to disk space issues and monitoring didn’t catch it. Its now running again but doing some catching up. (And lots of stuff in the queue it failed to build due to other problems needs to be replaced there, which is a manual process at the moment if we don’t want the queue as a whole to just drown out any new things at all with backlog). It would be much better to expose more queues and have better monitoring (and real prioritization), and another volunteer to help ben out on this would be very welcome (please contact me if you’re interested — the code lives at https://github.com/haskell/hackage-server/blob/master/BuildClient.hs and there’s some uncommitted work on queuing as well).
>
> —gerhsom
>
> On November 8, 2016 at 8:37:19 PM, Patrick Pelletier (code at funwithsoftware.org) wrote:
>> This is only my second time uploading a package to Hackage, so I don't
>> yet have a feel for how it's supposed to go. I uploaded
>> normalization-insensitive-2.0.0.1 about 24 hours ago:
>>
>> https://hackage.haskell.org/package/normalization-insensitive-2.0.0.1
>>
>> Under "Status", it says "Docs pending". (And the module names are all
>> non-clickable.) Is it normal to take this long to build the docs? Is
>> there some way to find out where in the queue my job is? Is this an
>> indication that something has gone wrong? How do I fix it?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> --Patrick
>>
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