Am Sonntag 11 April 2010 18:43:30 schrieb Maciej Piechotka:
* Build reporting in the hackage server The idea here is that cabal sends back anonymous reports to the server to say if a package compiled or not, and against what versions of dependencies. This would make it clearer to maintainers if their dependency versions are correct. Additionally I think it would be useful for hackage to provide tweaked .cabal files for packages with updated constraints, even without new version uploads. We are proposing a GSoC project which would cover some of this.
Hmm. I guess there are 2 problems:
- Privacy problem. I don't want the software to call home with data without asking.
I think in the default cabal config, build-reporting would be turned off and you'd have to turn it on yourself. Turning it on by default wouldn't be sensible.
- Spoofing problem. Someone can feed wrong data easily without chance of being discovered (for example to prove how grate 'haxor' he is).
Regards