[Haskell] ANNOUNCE: Haskell Communities & Activities Report (10thed., June 2006)

[Simon Peyton-Jones]

Indeed; but it sounds like just the kind of project that would benefit
from many contributors.

Simon

| -----Original Message-----
| From: Lemmih [mailto:lemmih at gmail.com]
| Sent: 15 June 2006 09:12
| To: Simon Peyton-Jones
| Cc: Bulat Ziganshin; Andres Loeh; haskell at haskell.org
| Subject: Re: [Haskell] ANNOUNCE: Haskell Communities & Activities
Report (10thed., June 2006)
| 
| Paolo Martini will most likely continue the development of HackageDB
| as part of his SoC project.
| 
| On 6/15/06, Simon Peyton-Jones <simonpj at microsoft.com> wrote:
| > I believe that this is just what HackageDB is for (described in HCAR
| > p20).   I have no idea of how complete Hackage is, thus far, though.
| >
| > Simon
| >
| > | so, the best media will be some sort of online database, like
CPAN.
| > | it should
| > |
| > | - have enough fields to allow any required searches - by date of
| > | publication, category, author
| > | - automatically extracts this information from cabal files
| > | - support various entry types, such as individuals, papers and all
| > | other mentioned in current HCAR
| > | - allow anyone to add new entries, with or without uploading
actual
| > | implementations
| > |
| > | this database should allow to find information about all
| > | the new/updated packages for last week, making possible automatic
| > | generation of this HWN part. in this case to announce his work,
| > | developer should just describe it at this server, and then
| > |
| > | 1) automatic announcement for this mail list will be generated
| > | 2) next week HWN will automatically include description of this
| > package
| > | 3) anyone interested to see new/updated packages for last year or
last
| > | month can run appropriate query on this server site
| > | 4) anyone who want to see full list of described packages or list
| > | split by categories can do it again using this site interface
| > |
| > | the good news is what we already have this database - yes, it's
HCAR
| > | itself, what is internally keeps as database, afaik. it has many
| > | fields required, although we should add more following the .cabal
| > | file structure. so we can start this online database just
| > | now. the only thing required is the web interface for
| > | editing/searching data
| > |
| > | the next important things will be keeping history of updates
| > | (especially version updates to allow search for libraries whose
major
| > | version was updated during, for example, last 6 months); adding
| > | "subscription to package" that allows to be warned via email when
| > | libraries i interested are updated; interaction with Hackage
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|   Lemmih