Re: [Haskell-cafe] hackagebot future ?

One of the issues that was brought up was that there was a bit of a flood of badly filled out cabal/stack projects uploaded at one point, so the channel got treated to a lot of "foo: Initial project template" announcements. Not much a bot can do about that, but it does increase the frustration level in-channel a fair bit and make people wonder if an announce bot is worth the trouble. On Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 9:51 PM, Jay Sulzberger wrote:

On Tue, 27 Dec 2016, Simon Michael wrote:

Hello all,

...

hackagebot is the bot I've been maintaining for a few years which announces new hackage uploads in the #haskell IRC channel. I've tried to keep it "a well-behaved, non-annoying bot". It's configured to announce up to 5 uploads at a time, with at least a 5 minute interval between announcements.

As our community grows, upload activity increases, and more megaprojects with many uploads appear, I've seen more complaints about the noise, and noticed channel ops muting it temporarily. A few weeks ago this happened, and also a possible problem with the correctness of the announcements or the feed was reported. I didn't have time to investigate, so I left it offline, inviting feedback if anyone missed it.

Since then I've heard nothing. So, even though I personally like seeing the uploads, and the conversations and connections that sometimes result, I'm inclined to let hackagebot rest indefinitely. Or, would a new maintainer like to take it on ? If you have feelings about it one way or the other, please reply on-list.

Thanks! -Simon

Perhaps one could send a signal to hackagebot telling it to not send announcements, or perhaps to queue 'em up and then send a batch when requested. Or maybe have the bot just send a pointer to today's web page with all of today's announcements, neatly laid out.

oo--JS.

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