On 09.09.2013 20:24, Duncan Coutts wrote: > Well-Typed and the Industrial Haskell Group (IHG) are very pleased > to announce that Hackage 2 is now available for public beta testing. > > [new features]: http://beta.hackage.haskell.org/new-features > > Package "candidates". You may have noticed that package versions are > often uploaded in quick succession -- sometimes just minutes apart -- > because a mistake is only noticed after the author uploaded. This > feature lets you upload a "candidate", giving it a URL that others > can download from, and gives an opportunity for build bots and > documentation builders to try the package out. Once the author is > satisfied then they can publish to the main package index. We think > this feature is about 90% complete. See issue #41.>
That sound so good! Thanks for putting out this feature! Andreas On 2013-09-09 20:24, Duncan Coutts wrote: > Well-Typed and the Industrial Haskell Group (IHG) are very pleased to > announce that Hackage 2 is now available for public beta testing. The > plan is to do the final switchover in late September, to coincide > with ICFP. > > http://beta.hackage.haskell.org/ [1] > > Read on for details of how to help with the public beta, an overview > of the new features and what the IHG has been doing to help. > > Support from the Industrial Haskell Group > ========================================= > > The IHG is a consortium of companies that rely on Haskell. The IHG > members have funded the effort to get Hackage 2 up to feature parity > and get it ready for the switchover. The IHG funded this effort because > while the volunteer effort got us the "first 90%" of the way there > (including adding a number of new features) there was still the "last > 90%" to do to get it production ready. > > The IHG members decided to fund Hackage 2 not just because they are > good citizens, but out of enlightened self-interest. Hackage has over > 5000 packages written by over 1000 people -- including the world's best > Haskell developers. This is a massive resource. The IHG members > recognise that improvements to the tools and infrastructure that the > community uses helps the community to produce more and better code. > This is a benefit to everyone in the community -- including the > commercial users. > > The IHG is keen to increase its membership so that more resources can > be dedicated to improving the Haskell development platform. If your > organisation relies on Haskell in some way then you may want to > consider joining. See the IHG website for more details or contact > i...@industry.haskell.org. > > [IHG website]: http://industry.haskell.org/ [2] > > Despite the help of the IHG in getting to this point, Hackage is a > community project, and its success depends on the community maintaining > and further improving the new server. The code is now on github so it > is easier to contribute, and now that the server is live there is more > immediate gratification for volunteers contributing fixes and new > features. > > Public beta > =========== > > We would like to encourage you to take part in the public beta testing. > We need help both from package authors as well as other users of the > site. > > Please report any problems you find using the issue tracker on the > hackage-server github site. > > [issue tracker]: https://github.com/haskell/hackage-server/issues [3] > [github site]: https://github.com/haskell/hackage-server [4] > > We are mirroring packages from the old server (every 30min) so it is > suitable to use as your main hackage server with some caveats: we are > allowing package authors to upload (as well as doing the mirroring) so > you may find a slightly different set of packages on this server. > > If you are a package author then you are welcome to poke about and > upload packages. We have imported user accounts from the old server > (except for a small number of early adopters of the original server who > will need to contact an administrator). Note that before we do the > final switchover we will *delete everything* from the beta instance > and do a fresh import from the old hackage server. > > Configuring cabal-install > ------------------------- > > Edit your ~/.cabal/config file. Comment-out the existing "remote-repo" > line near the top of the file and add in a new one like this: > > --remote-repo: hackage.haskell.org:http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive [5] > > remote-repo: beta.hackage.haskell.org:http://beta.hackage.haskell.org/ [1] > > New features > ============ > > Though our main priority has been feature parity so that we can switch > over, volunteers have contributed several new features, including > better package search, a new site theme, improved security, the ability > to fix package dependencies after a release, changelogs, and a > REST-style interface. > > See the beta site for more details on these new features, plus details > of other features that are partially implemented or are in need of > improvement. > > [new features]: http://beta.hackage.haskell.org/new-features [6] > > Contributing to the development > =============================== > > The code is on github and we welcome pull requests. > > There are open tickets describing existing bugs and features that we > want or that are in need of improvement. Help on any of these would be > greatly appreciated. > > There is some developer and user documentation on the github wiki, > including a quick guide to getting your own server instance up and > running. > > You can ask questions on the cabal-devel mailing list or on IRC in > the #hackage channel on freenode. > > [code]: https://github.com/haskell/hackage-server [4] > [github wiki]: https://github.com/haskell/hackage-server/wiki [7] > [cabal-devel]: http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cabal-devel [8] -- Andreas Abel <>< Du bist der geliebte Mensch. Theoretical Computer Science, University of Munich http://www.tcs.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/~abel/ Links: ------ [1] http://beta.hackage.haskell.org/ [2] http://industry.haskell.org/ [3] https://github.com/haskell/hackage-server/issues [4] https://github.com/haskell/hackage-server [5] http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive [6] http://beta.hackage.haskell.org/new-features [7] https://github.com/haskell/hackage-server/wiki [8] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cabal-devel
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