#570: Include distributions status on package page --------------------------------+------------------------------------------- Reporter: nomeata | Owner: Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: hackageDB website | Version: Severity: normal | Resolution: Keywords: patch | Difficulty: unknown Ghcversion: | Platform: --------------------------------+------------------------------------------- Comment (by duncan): I think a better way round is to keep the server dumb and to have smart clients PUT/POST this information to the server. I'd welcome a patch to implement this in the new hackage-server implementation: darcs get http://code.haskell.org/hackage-server/ As for a design, I think one resource per package, per distro, so we'd want to PUT status info in an agreed format (including eg URL to the distro package) to $server/package/$packageid/distro-status/$distro Using one resource per package seems like a lot for an initial import (but it's not that bad since with HTTP you can send lots of messages on a single connection) but it is simpler, more RESTful and is fine once you get into a steady state since you'd only post updates and new packages. -- Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/570#comment:2 Hackage http://haskell.org/cabal/ Hackage: Cabal and related projects