Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage feature request: E-mail author when a package breaks

2011-11-02 Thread Max Bolingbroke
On 2 November 2011 01:08, Diego Souza dso...@bitforest.org wrote: The idea is simple: there are many different platforms that would be to expensive for one to support. So they ask the community for help, and then distribute the load amongst the perl community. Duncan and co have been working

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage feature request: E-mail author when a package breaks

2011-11-01 Thread Ketil Malde
Yitzchak Gale g...@sefer.org writes: Gregory Crosswhite wrote: could [Hackage] have a feature where when a working package breaks with a new version of GHC the author is automatically e-mailed? This would be nice. However, there would have to be a way for it to be turned on and off by the

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage feature request: E-mail author when a package breaks

2011-11-01 Thread Conrad Parker
On 1 November 2011 03:43, Alexander Kjeldaas alexander.kjeld...@gmail.com wrote: On 31 October 2011 17:22, Yitzchak Gale g...@sefer.org wrote: Gregory Crosswhite wrote: could [Hackage] have a feature where when a working package breaks with a new version of GHC the author is

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage feature request: E-mail author when a package breaks

2011-11-01 Thread Max Bolingbroke
On 1 November 2011 09:00, Ketil Malde ke...@malde.org wrote: This is where it stranded the last time, IIRC.  That sentiment makes me a bit uneasy; so you are the official maintainer of a package on Hackage, but you do not want to hear about it when it fails to compile? Don't forget that some

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage feature request: E-mail author when a package breaks

2011-11-01 Thread José Pedro Magalhães
On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 09:43, Conrad Parker con...@metadecks.org wrote: On 1 November 2011 03:43, Alexander Kjeldaas alexander.kjeld...@gmail.com wrote: On 31 October 2011 17:22, Yitzchak Gale g...@sefer.org wrote: Gregory Crosswhite wrote: could [Hackage] have a feature where when a

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage feature request: E-mail author when a package breaks

2011-11-01 Thread Yitzchak Gale
I wrote: This would be nice. However, there would have to be a way for it to be turned on and off by the author. (Spam is not nice.) Ketil Malde wrote: This is where it stranded the last time, IIRC.  That sentiment makes me a bit uneasy; so you are the official maintainer of a package on

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage feature request: E-mail author when a package breaks

2011-11-01 Thread Ketil Malde
Max Bolingbroke batterseapo...@hotmail.com writes: This is where it stranded the last time, IIRC.  That sentiment makes me a bit uneasy; so you are the official maintainer of a package on Hackage, but you do not want to hear about it when it fails to compile? Don't forget that some packages

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage feature request: E-mail author when a package breaks

2011-11-01 Thread Max Bolingbroke
On 1 November 2011 10:14, Ketil Malde ke...@malde.org wrote: So, I'd *love* to get an email when my packages fail to build, but I will accept that other people have a more sensitive relationship with their inbox.  (I assume that the people who raise this objection - Max and Yitzchak - belong

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage feature request: E-mail author when a package breaks

2011-11-01 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 06:14, Ketil Malde ke...@malde.org wrote: Max Bolingbroke batterseapo...@hotmail.com writes: This is where it stranded the last time, IIRC. That sentiment makes me a bit uneasy; so you are the official maintainer of a package on Hackage, but you do not want to hear

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage feature request: E-mail author when a package breaks

2011-11-01 Thread Ketil Malde
Yitzchak Gale g...@sefer.org writes: I am just a little worried that if uploading to Hackage requires agreeing to unlimited uncontrollable spamming by a bot, The bot would, of course, be implemented in Haskell. Anybody who still worries about bugs, is free to implement a better one in Agda.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage feature request: E-mail author when a package breaks

2011-11-01 Thread Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
On 1 November 2011 21:35, Ketil Malde ke...@malde.org wrote: or even  Maintainer: Ketil Malde ketil at malde dot org  -- email me if you are human Though unless the hackage email bot is smart enough, this will result in a lot of unsendable emails... -- Ivan Lazar Miljenovic

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage feature request: E-mail author when a package breaks

2011-11-01 Thread Paul R
On 1 November 2011 21:35, Ketil Malde ke...@malde.org wrote: or even  Maintainer: Ketil Malde ketil at malde dot org  -- email me if you are human Though unless the hackage email bot is smart enough, this will result in a lot of unsendable emails... But the bot is not a human, so that's

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage feature request: E-mail author when a package breaks

2011-11-01 Thread Daniel Díaz Casanueva
How about to a new optional Cabal field like mail-report? (don't bother about this name, I chose it randomly) If a build failure happens, or there is some relevant information about your package, Hackage will send a mail to the direction specified in that field. A field which content will NOT

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage feature request: E-mail author when a package breaks

2011-11-01 Thread Nick Bowler
On 2011-11-01 12:59 +0100, Daniel Díaz Casanueva wrote: How about to a new optional Cabal field like mail-report? (don't bother about this name, I chose it randomly) If a build failure happens, or there is some relevant information about your package, Hackage will send a mail to the

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage feature request: E-mail author when a package breaks

2011-11-01 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 08:24, Nick Bowler nbow...@elliptictech.com wrote: On 2011-11-01 12:59 +0100, Daniel Díaz Casanueva wrote: How about to a new optional Cabal field like mail-report? (don't bother about this name, I chose it randomly) Doing anything like this in the .cabal file is a

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage feature request: E-mail author when a package breaks

2011-11-01 Thread Daniel Díaz Casanueva
Then, the mailing list seems to be an option. But then I will receive mails for every package, and there is a lot of packages! Is not a lot of mails this? There is another work around? ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage feature request: E-mail author when a package breaks

2011-11-01 Thread Paterson, Ross
Daniel Díaz Casanueva writes: How about to a new optional Cabal field like mail-report? (don't bother about this name, I chose it randomly) If a build failure happens, or there is some relevant information about your package, Hackage will send a mail to the direction specified in that

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage feature request: E-mail author when a package breaks

2011-11-01 Thread Conrad Parker
On Nov 1, 2011 8:45 PM, Daniel Díaz Casanueva dhelta.d...@gmail.com wrote: Then, the mailing list seems to be an option. But then I will receive mails for every package, and there is a lot of packages! Is not a lot of mails this? There is another work around? Nobody would read every build

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage feature request: E-mail author when a package breaks

2011-11-01 Thread Jason Dagit
On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 2:45 AM, Max Bolingbroke batterseapo...@hotmail.com wrote: On 1 November 2011 09:00, Ketil Malde ke...@malde.org wrote: This is where it stranded the last time, IIRC.  That sentiment makes me a bit uneasy; so you are the official maintainer of a package on Hackage, but

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage feature request: E-mail author when a package breaks

2011-11-01 Thread Paul R
Ross A field in the .cabal file is just as available to bots as Ross a field on the package page. Yes, absolutly. There are at least one easy solution for this problem : having a server-side user model that is related to packages, or to packages versions, indicating wich user is the maintainer

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage feature request: E-mail author when a package breaks

2011-11-01 Thread Diego Souza
The perl community has something really interesting for quite long time: http://wiki.cpantesters.org/wiki/HomePage Or more specifically: http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=DBI The idea is simple: there are many different platforms that would be to expensive for one to support. So they ask the

[Haskell-cafe] Hackage feature request: E-mail author when a package breaks

2011-10-31 Thread Gregory Crosswhite
Hey everyone, I have uploaded a number of small packages to Hackage that I no longer actively use so that I don't find out immediately when a new version of GHC has broken them. Since Hackage is going to the trouble of finding out when a package no longer builds anyway, could it have a

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage feature request: E-mail author when a package breaks

2011-10-31 Thread Johan Tibell
On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 12:08 AM, Gregory Crosswhite gcrosswh...@gmail.comwrote: I have uploaded a number of small packages to Hackage that I no longer actively use so that I don't find out immediately when a new version of GHC has broken them. Since Hackage is going to the trouble of finding

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage feature request: E-mail author when a package breaks

2011-10-31 Thread Yitzchak Gale
Gregory Crosswhite wrote: could [Hackage] have a feature where when a working package breaks with a new version of GHC the author is automatically e-mailed? This would be nice. However, there would have to be a way for it to be turned on and off by the author. (Spam is not nice.) Thanks, Yitz

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage feature request: E-mail author when a package breaks

2011-10-31 Thread Alexander Kjeldaas
On 31 October 2011 17:22, Yitzchak Gale g...@sefer.org wrote: Gregory Crosswhite wrote: could [Hackage] have a feature where when a working package breaks with a new version of GHC the author is automatically e-mailed? This would be nice. However, there would have to be a way for it to