Awesome! I am willing to assist with any Happstack related technical problems or questions that arise in trying to get this deployed.
- jeremy On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 5:44 PM, Ben Gamari <bgamari.f...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey all, > > Those of you who follow the Haskell subreddit no doubt saw today's post > regarding the status of Hackage 2. As has been said many times in the > past, the primary blocker at this point to the adoption of Hackage 2 > appears to be the lack of an administrator. > > It seems to me this is a poor reason for this effort to be held > up. Having taken a bit of time to consider, I would be willing to put in > some effort to get things moving and would be willing to maintain the > haskell.org Hackage 2.0 instance going forward if necessary. > > I currently have a running installation on my personal machine and > things seem to be working as they should. On the whole, installation was > quite trivial, so it seems likely that the project is indeed at a point > where it can take real use (although a "logout" option in the web > interface would make testing a bit easier). > > That being said, it would in my opinion be silly to proceed without > fixing the Hackage trac. It was taken down earlier this year due to > spamming[1] and it seems the recovery project has been orphaned. I would > be willing to help with this effort, but it seems like the someone more > familiar with the haskel.org infrastructure might be better equipped to > handle the situation. > > It seems that this process will go something like this, > 1) Bring Hackage trac back from the dead > 2) Bring up a Hackage 2 instance along-side the existing > hackage.haskell.org > 3) Enlist testers > 4) Let things simmer for a few weeks/months ensuring nothing explodes > 5) After it's agreed that things are stable, eventually swap the > Hackage 1 and 2 instances > > This will surely be a non-trivial process but I would be willing to move > things forward. > > Cheers, > > - Ben > > > [1] http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/cabal-devel/2012-January/008427.html > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe >
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