Yitzchak Gale
Gregory Crosswhite wrote:
could [Hackage] have a feature where when a working package breaks with a new version of GHC the author is automatically e-mailed?
This would be nice. However, there would have to be a way for it to be turned on and off by the author. (Spam is not nice.)
This is where it stranded the last time, IIRC. That sentiment makes me a bit uneasy; so you are the official maintainer of a package on Hackage, but you do not want to hear about it when it fails to compile? To me, this raises the question whether you should take on the responsibility as maintainer at all. Ideally, I think Hackage should avoid being a dumping ground for non-working code, and I think the key to high quality software is having active maintainers for each package. If the author of a package is unwilling to accept failure reports, I suggest she could leave the Maintainer field blank, or fill it with a dummy value (e.g. "unmaintained"). -k -- If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants