Hi Ian, Looks great, thanks for the work! One question: I see the reverse dependencies have been disabled, darcs says for 'performance problems'. Do you have some details? Do you think it is hard to fix?
I wouldn't mind doing some permission granting for the testing period, by the way. Erik On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 5:17 PM, Ian Lynagh <i...@well-typed.com> wrote: > > Hi all, > > All the bugs identified in the Hackage 2 server as blockers have now > been fixed, and I have a mirror of Hackage running here: > http://new-hackage.haskell.org/ > > I suggest that we proceed with: > > * A 3 week testing period, to be announced on haskell@ and libraries@ > * Assuming no new blocking bugs are found which justify additional > testing time, disable uploads to the Hackage 1 server > * Throw the testing Hackage 2 instance away, and make a new mirror from > the Hackage 1 server > * Point hackage.haskell.org at the new Hackage 2 instance > > > I think that a 3 week testing period will be sufficient as I expect most > testing will happen in the first week or two, or the last few days, so > any extra time is essentially wasted. I was actually initially going to > propose 2 weeks, but given the timing of ICFP et al I think an extra > week is justified. > > The reason I propose throwing away this test instance is that I think > it's important that people are able to test uploading, and therefore > uploading dummy packages and dummy versions should be encouraged. > > > Does that plan sound reasonable to everyone? > > Is anyone willing to volunteer to be an admin for the new Hackage server > please? (people need to have an admin add their account to the uploaders > group before they can upload). > > > A couple more notes: > > The mirror is a week or two old, so the latest package uploads won't be > on it. I don't plan to set up continuous mirroring, as I think it may be > more useful for people to be able to upload new versions to both servers > themselves, for testing. > > The documentation builder has built (or failed to build) docs for the > latest versions of all packages, but it's still working through older > versions. It will therefore take up to 35mins before it notices that a > new package has been uploaded, and builds docs for it. > > > Finally, I would like to thank the Industrial Haskell Group > (http://industry.haskell.org/) for funding this work. > > > Thanks > Ian > -- > Ian Lynagh, Haskell Consultant > Well-Typed LLP, http://www.well-typed.com/ > > > _______________________________________________ > cabal-devel mailing list > cabal-devel@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cabal-devel _______________________________________________ cabal-devel mailing list cabal-devel@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cabal-devel
