Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage feature request: E-mail author when a package breaks

On 1 November 2011 03:43, Alexander Kjeldaas wrote:

On 31 October 2011 17:22, Yitzchak Gale wrote:

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Gregory Crosswhite wrote:

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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.)

How about sending an email to haskell-package-<packate-name>@haskell.org, and then people can join that mailing list if they are interested in that sort of stuff?  Mailman is good at doing subscribe and unsubscribe.

+1 I like this because it is opt-in for the maintainer, and also allows anyone else who is interested in the package to track it. Per-package RSS updates of build failures would also be useful. Conrad.