On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 11:44:18PM +0000, Ben Gamari wrote:
Those of you who follow the Haskell subreddit no doubt saw today's post regarding the status of Hackage 2. As has been said many times in the past, the primary blocker at this point to the adoption of Hackage 2 appears to be the lack of an administrator.
It seems to me this is a poor reason for this effort to be held up. Having taken a bit of time to consider, I would be willing to put in some effort to get things moving and would be willing to maintain the haskell.org Hackage 2.0 instance going forward if necessary.
Hurrah! After 5 years, 1 month and 7 days of doing this, I'm keen to stop. (I've been waiting since Hackage 2 was announced in the Nov 2008 HCAR.)
It seems that this process will go something like this, 1) Bring Hackage trac back from the dead 2) Bring up a Hackage 2 instance along-side the existing hackage.haskell.org 3) Enlist testers 4) Let things simmer for a few weeks/months ensuring nothing explodes 5) After it's agreed that things are stable, eventually swap the Hackage 1 and 2 instances
Sounds like a good plan. I expect there are a number of small things that still need doing to make the new server a complete replacement.