And we can have something on hackage that does this check automatically!
And we can put "unmaintained" in the description! And then we can leave
it unmaintained!
"Unmaintained" should have its own flag, I think...
On 5/5/2013 2:28 PM, Petr Pudlák wrote:
I'd say:
- If a package has UNMAINTAINED (perhaps also DEPRECATED?) somewhere
in its title/description, don't do anything.
- Otherwise if the package hasn't been updated for past 3 months, send
a quarterly reminder (including the information under what conditions
the reminder is sent).
2013/5/5 Doug Burke <dburke...@gmail.com <mailto:dburke...@gmail.com>>
On May 5, 2013 7:25 AM, "Petr Pudlák" <petr....@gmail.com
<mailto:petr....@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> on another thread there was a suggestion which perhaps went
unnoticed by most:
>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Niklas Hambüchen <m...@nh2.me <mailto:m...@nh2.me>>
>> Date: 2013/5/4
>> ...
>> 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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