Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage checking maintainership of packages

If there's a github link in the package url, it could check the last update to the default branch. If it's more than 6 months ago, an email to the maintainer of "is this package maintained?" can be sent. If there's no reply in 3 months, the package is marked as unmaintained. If the email is ever responded to or a new version is uploaded, the package can be un-marked. - Clark On Sunday, May 5, 2013, Lyndon Maydwell wrote:

I've got it!

The answer was staring us in the face all along... We can just introduce backwards-compatibility breaking changes into GHC-head and see if the project fails to compile for x-time! That way we're SURE it's unmaintained.

I'll stop sending emails now.

On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 10:44 AM, Clark Gaebel wrote:

If there's a github link in the package url, it could check the last update to the default branch. If it's more than 6 months ago, an email to the maintainer of "is this package maintained?" can be sent. If there's no reply in 3 months, the package is marked as unmaintained. If the email is ever responded to or a new version is uploaded, the package can be un-marked.

- Clark

On Sunday, May 5, 2013, Lyndon Maydwell wrote:

But what if the package is already perfect?

Jokes aside, I think that activity alone wouldn't be a good indicator.

On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 9:59 AM, Conrad Parker wrote:

On 6 May 2013 09:42, Felipe Almeida Lessa wrote:

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Just checking the repo wouldn't work. It may still have some activity but not be maintained and vice-versa.

ok, how about this: if the maintainer feels that their repo and maintenance activities are non-injective they can additionally provide an http-accessible URL for the maintenance activity. Hackage can then do an HTTP HEAD request on that URL and use the Last-Modified response header as an indication of the last time of maintenance activity. I'm being a bit tongue-in-cheek, but actually this would allow you to point hackage to a blog as evidence of maintenance activity.

I like the idea of just pinging the code repo.

Conrad.

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On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 2:19 PM, Doug Burke wrote:

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On May 5, 2013 7:25 AM, "Petr Pudlák" wrote:

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Hi,

on another thread there was a suggestion which perhaps went unnoticed

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---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Niklas Hambüchen Date: 2013/5/4 ... I would even be happy with newhackage sending every package

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quarterly question "Would you still call your project X 'maintained'?" for each package they maintain; Hackage could really give us better indications concerning this.

This sounds to me like a very good idea. It could be as simple as "If you consider yourself to be the maintainer of package X please just hit reply and send." If Hackage doesn't get an answer, it'd just would display some red text like "This package seems to be unmaintained since D.M.Y."

Best regards, Petr

For those packages that give a repository, a query could be done automatically to see when it was last updated. It's not the same thing as 'being maintained', but is less annoying for those people with many

by maintainer a packages

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on hackage.

Doug

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