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

5 May 2013

      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 by
most:
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Niklas Hambüchen 
Date: 2013/5/4
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I would even be happy with newhackage sending every package maintainer a
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 packages
on hackage.
Doug
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Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage checking maintainership of packages

Conrad Parker