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

On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 06:14, Ketil Malde wrote:

Max Bolingbroke writes:

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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?

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Don't forget that some packages fail to compile on Hackage even though they work fine, because e.g. they depend on a third-party C library that is not installed, or depend on some other package that Hackage cannot build.

True, in that case, it's harder to avoid getting one email every time you upload a new version. We should still strive to have stuff build on Hackage (e.g. installing C libs or fixing the ohter packages); if the build fails for one of these reasons, you never know if it fails for other reasons as well.

Instead of immediately sending mail, a daily process should pull up the most recent status for each package, grouped by maintainer, and send all the failures in a single daily message. Perhaps monthly this could be expanded to also report for the successful packages. -- brandon s allbery allbery.b@gmail.com wandering unix systems administrator (available) (412) 475-9364 vm/sms