Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: GSoC: Hackage 2.0

On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 10:59 AM, Job Vranish wrote:

On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Malcolm Wallace wrote:

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How much cooler it would be, if the wiki-like comment on Hackage could automatically be converted into a darcs/git/whatever patch, and mailed to the package author/maintainer by Hackage itself.

This would indeed be awesome :)

Though I think I would prefer to select, from a list of comments, which ones I would like to include, and then click the "Download darcs/git/whatever patch" button. (rather than get hit by emails )

- Job

That's what this proposal is, suggested a year ago: http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/8bylw/ask_haskell_reddit_how_can_we... The wiki way to go about it where changes can still be sent upstream is to make patches for every documentation change (using a simple editing interface, not the HTML source), and update Hackage's Haddock tree with the patch. The author can then apply the patches. If he doesn't patch anything but submits a new version of the source, the patches will just be reapplied again, with prompts to resolve conflicts which he or others can resolve. Complicated, but I think it would work. /Matt