On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 10:59 AM, Job Vranish <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Malcolm Wallace > <[email protected]> wrote: >> How much cooler it would be, if the wiki-like comment on Hackage could >> automatically be converted into a darcs/git/whatever patch, and mailed to >> the package author/maintainer by Hackage itself. >> > This would indeed be awesome :) > > Though I think I would prefer to select, from a list of comments, which ones > I would like to include, and then click the "Download darcs/git/whatever > patch" button. (rather than get hit by emails ) > > - Job >
That's what this proposal is, suggested a year ago: http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/8bylw/ask_haskell_reddit_how_can_we_improve_the/c08tc0q The wiki way to go about it where changes can still be sent upstream is to make patches for every documentation change (using a simple editing interface, not the HTML source), and update Hackage's Haddock tree with the patch. The author can then apply the patches. If he doesn't patch anything but submits a new version of the source, the patches will just be reapplied again, with prompts to resolve conflicts which he or others can resolve. Complicated, but I think it would work. /Matt _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
