Hi Don,
I'm one week backed up on AUR updates.
according to http://hackage.haskell.org/package/numeric-prelude, the last update of that package happened on Sep 22. Yet, AUR doesn't have that update even though the package has been being marked out-of-date, etc. So clearly your statement that you lag one week behind cannot be true, can it?
Hackage is averaging 15 packages a day uploaded now, but spikes up to 30 packages a day. That's getting hard to stay on top of.
You make it sound as if that were a recent development, but the fact of the matter is that AUR has been lagging behind Hackage substantially for the last 9 months or so. It's not "getting hard to stay on top of". Rather, you haven't been able to stay on top of Hackage for the better part of a year.
The tools for tracking aren't yet in a state to support distrbuted maintainance either (though they're close).
If I had a penny every time you said that! Let's see: * May 25: http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/arch-haskell/2010-May/000407.html | > the AUR packages haskell-{hsdns,hsemail,funcmp} are out-of-date | > for quite a while now. According to gour, the reason is that the | > ArchHaskell team lacks developers to perform the updates. | > | > I would be happy to contribute some time and effort to the | > project. Can I help in some way? | | Yes, I think you can. I need to package up my scripts so that it is easy | for anyone to update our packages. Stay tuned for more details. * Aug 9: http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/arch-haskell/2010-August/000429.html | There are some other scripts that need to be in place. My timeline for | this is: | | * Release updated versions of cabal2arch and archlinux packages [done] | * GHC 6.12.3 into extra | * Release all additional scripts (i.e. for generating | http://www.galois.com/~dons/arch-haskell-status.html , and process for updating. | * Create group account. | * Hand over maintainership for packages. So, by now it's October, and you still say exactly the same thing as you did back in May. It's just that there's nothing happening to back those words up. Take care, Peter