2013/3/13 Duncan Coutts <dun...@well-typed.com> > Hi folks, > > I believe we're ready for alpha testing for hackage 2. The > server is up at: > > http://new-hackage.haskell.org/ > > Key points: > * All the old data is imported (including docs) > * Uploading is enabled > * Live mirroring is also enabled > * Per-package maintainer groups are pre-populated > * Existing users should be able to log in (after a one-time > upgrade) > > I would like to invite everyone on this list to help out with the alpha > testing and to report issues here on this list. Patches are even better. > The server is up now so you'll get "instant patch gratification"tm if > you chip in and fix things. > > In addition to any bugs you may discover, the server main page gives an > overview of the features that are partially complete and could do with > some love. > > When we're satisfied we'll move into beta testing and advertise more > widely within the community (reddit etc). > > The doc builder is not set up yet, but the builder client code exists, > just need to get that set up. > > In general the switch over plan remains that we run the two servers in > parallel for long enough to sort out remaining issues (with help from > the kind folks who volunteered as admins). > > Code and wiki > ============= > > The code is all still in darcs. > darcs get http://code.haskell.org/hackage-server/ > > The plan is to move it to github at some stage. > > The wiki content is still useful though starting to get a bit out of > sync: > > http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/wiki/HackageDB/2.0 > > We had to turn off wiki editing for most users because of spammers. If > you'd like to work on the wiki, let me know and I'll give your account > permission to edit it. Note also that I think Ben Millwood is planning > to move the content to github at some stage, though we can still make > improvements to the content in the meantime. > > > Hackage Admins > ============== > > I believe the following people volunteered to be admins, at least for > the alpha/beta testing period: > > * Erik Hesselink > * Ben Millwood > * Johan Tibell > > If you folks (or anyone else who wants to volunteer) would like to > confirm that then I'll add you to the admins group. > > User accounts > ============= > > Existing users should be fine. That process should now be fairly smooth > (testing welcome!). For new users, they can sign up with email > confirmation. An administrator is needed to add a user into the > uploaders group. Currently there's not a lot you can do with an account > if you're not in the uploaders group. That may change in future if we > implement "social" features. >
I tried to login with my username/pw, but failed. Here's what I did: I go to a package I've published and hit "edit package information" in the Maintainers' corner. It prompts me to login. If I hit cancel, it shows No authorization provided. If I type a random username/pw it keeps asking me. If I type my actual username/pw it asks me several times, then my webbrowser shows "This webpage is not available" (ie. not an error message from hackage). At one point it showed me a page where I could upgrade my account (and I haven't yet), but it does not show that page any more. I tried several times, it repeatedly shows me "This webpage is not available". Lennart > Hackage Trustees > ================ > > In addition to admins we have the "trustees" group. This should > eventually be a rather useful job. The idea is that the trustees don't > upload packages but look after the health of the package collection as a > whole (or some subset they're interested in), a bit like distro > maintainers. Currently they can only edit package tags and upload docs > (e.g. if the doc builder fails) but the plan is for them (as well as > maintainers) to be able to edit package metadata, in particular the > constraints on dependencies. Once we get there, that'll be a rather > important job. So I'm also looking for volunteers there, both to be > trustees and to help finish implementing the metadata-editing feature. > > -- > Duncan Coutts, 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 >
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