Hey, Just a gentle reminder, If I could get a reply to my previous mail as the deadline for submission is now less than a day and I would like to submit the proposal well before the deadline. Sorry for remailing.
Thanks, Karan Sheth On Mon, Apr 8, 2019 at 12:05 AM KARAN SHETH <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hey, > > > There's nothing specific that I would want to comment on. > > Well, to me it's not entirely clear how the automatic updates would be > > supposed to work, but ... > > I made some changes to the update part, is it better now or am I still > missing something? > > > And the stretch goals are somewhat short :) > > Ya I am aware of this and am waiting for some good idea to put in there. > Should I add PortGroup for NPM as stretch goal? > > > The only thing (mentioned yesterday) is that you either try to support > > Haskell, or you don't even try. If we want to try (and spend the exact > > same amount of time as you initially planned), then it makes sense to > > spend a bit of time earlier than in week 11. If you only start > > exploring the options in week 11, I would say that it's nearly > > guaranteed that you would run out of time while potentially waiting > > for someone else to do something, or waiting for some good ideas to > > pop up. > > If you would want to do Haskell, you would probably need to plant a > > seed early (not spend more than half a day or a day in any case), let > > it ripe while working on other important features, and then see if > > this is feasible / worth finishing or not. I still don't know what the > > major blocks are, but just because something is not written in json > > should not be the reason to give up. The format still seems parsable > > to me (not sure how many complications would arise). > > > > http://hackage.haskell.org/package/cabal2arch > > http://hackage.haskell.org/package/cabal2nix > > http://hackage.haskell.org/package/cabal2spec > > https://github.com/ddssff/cabal-debian > > > > Please note that I'm not implying that this is of vital importance to > > the project. A well written support for automatic updates of > > python/ruby/perl/npm ports would be worth a lot more than a bunch of > > semi-broken haskell/cabal packages. > > I have changed the timeline for Haskell now and the basic structure of > it starts at week3. > > Should I add the PR links somewhere in the proposal ? > > Thanks, > Karan Sheth -- <https://www.somaiya.edu> <http://www.somaiya-ayurvihar.org> <http://nareshwadi.org> <http://somaiya.com> <http://www.helpachild.in> <http://nareshwadi.org>
