Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: GSoC: Hackage 2.0

2010-04-13 Thread Ross Paterson
On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 09:23:51PM -0400, Matthew Gruen wrote: > The proposal as I submitted it is here: > > http://docs.google.com/View?docid=0Afa5MxwyB_zYZGhjanNrdjNfMjkzZjloOWNienY&pageview=1&hgd=1&hl=en > [...] > The work on bringing hackage-server up to feature parity is primary. Absolutely.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: GSoC: Hackage 2.0

2010-04-09 Thread Don Stewart
wikigracenotes: > The proposal as I submitted it is here: > > http://docs.google.com/View?docid=0Afa5MxwyB_zYZGhjanNrdjNfMjkzZjloOWNienY&pageview=1&hgd=1&hl=en > > And it might need further revision as I talk to Duncan and the > community. The advanced social features wouldn't get deployed by the

[Haskell-cafe] Re: GSoC: Hackage 2.0

2010-04-09 Thread Matthew Gruen
The proposal as I submitted it is here: http://docs.google.com/View?docid=0Afa5MxwyB_zYZGhjanNrdjNfMjkzZjloOWNienY&pageview=1&hgd=1&hl=en And it might need further revision as I talk to Duncan and the community. The advanced social features wouldn't get deployed by the end of the summer, but by t

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: GSoC: Hackage 2.0

2010-04-09 Thread Stephen Tetley
Hello all I support the immediate aims of Matthew Gruen's proposal and hope it gets adopted as a SoC project, but for the 'web2.0' aspects I largely agree with Nick Bowler. As a package author, checking disparate wiki pages to help people is more work than answering emails. Also, if people have i

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: GSoC: Hackage 2.0

2010-04-09 Thread Nick Bowler
On 10:21 Fri 09 Apr , Job Vranish wrote: > On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 9:46 AM, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic < > ivan.miljeno...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Job Vranish writes: > > > I vote for adding a feature that would let people post comments/code > > > snippets to the documentation of other peoples pack

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: GSoC: Hackage 2.0

2010-04-09 Thread Matthew Gruen
On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 10:59 AM, Job Vranish wrote: > > > On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Malcolm Wallace > 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/maintain

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: GSoC: Hackage 2.0

2010-04-09 Thread Job Vranish
On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Malcolm Wallace < malcolm.wall...@cs.york.ac.uk> wrote: > > It would be even nicer if you could post comments to individual haskell >> > definitions on the haddock page, and then hide most of them by default >> under >> > an expander of some sort. >> >> Rather than

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: GSoC: Hackage 2.0

2010-04-09 Thread Job Vranish
On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 10:31 AM, Edward Kmett wrote: > On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 10:21 AM, Job Vranish wrote: > >> On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 9:46 AM, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic < >> ivan.miljeno...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Job Vranish writes: >>> > I vote for adding a feature that would let people post com

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: GSoC: Hackage 2.0

2010-04-09 Thread Malcolm Wallace
> It would be even nicer if you could post comments to individual haskell > definitions on the haddock page, and then hide most of them by default under > an expander of some sort. Rather than, you know, providing the maintainer with a patch with some improved documentation? How much coole

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: GSoC: Hackage 2.0

2010-04-09 Thread Edward Kmett
On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 10:21 AM, Job Vranish wrote: > On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 9:46 AM, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic < > ivan.miljeno...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Job Vranish writes: >> > I vote for adding a feature that would let people post comments/code >> > snippets to the documentation of other peoples

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: GSoC: Hackage 2.0

2010-04-09 Thread Job Vranish
On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 9:46 AM, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic < ivan.miljeno...@gmail.com> wrote: > Job Vranish writes: > > I vote for adding a feature that would let people post comments/code > > snippets to the documentation of other peoples packages :) > > You mean turn every hackage project page into

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: GSoC: Hackage 2.0

2010-04-09 Thread Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
Job Vranish writes: > I vote for adding a feature that would let people post comments/code > snippets to the documentation of other peoples packages :) You mean turn every hackage project page into a mini wiki? > It would be even nicer if you could post comments to individual haskell > definitio

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: GSoC: Hackage 2.0

2010-04-09 Thread Job Vranish
I vote for adding a feature that would let people post comments/code snippets to the documentation of other peoples packages :) It would be even nicer if you could post comments to individual haskell definitions on the haddock page, and then hide most of them by default under an expander of some s

[Haskell-cafe] Re: GSoC: Hackage 2.0

2010-04-09 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Wed, 2010-04-07 at 00:40 -0400, Matthew Gruen wrote: > Hi Haskellers, > > I'm Matt Gruen (Gracenotes in #haskell), and the Hackage 2.0 SoC > project at > really piqued my interest. It seems doable, in a summer, to make the > new hack

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: GSoC: Hackage 2.0

2010-04-09 Thread Antoine Latter
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 11:07 PM, Matthew Gruen wrote: > On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 10:58 PM, Antoine Latter wrote: >> One thing in the branch over in http://code.haskell.org/hackage-server >>  is the ability for package maintainers to upload documentation to the >> server. This way we're not tying th

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: GSoC: Hackage 2.0

2010-04-08 Thread Matthew Gruen
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 10:58 PM, Antoine Latter wrote: > One thing in the branch over in http://code.haskell.org/hackage-server >  is the ability for package maintainers to upload documentation to the > server. This way we're not tying the ability of the server doing a > build-check to the ability

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: GSoC: Hackage 2.0

2010-04-08 Thread Antoine Latter
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 6:38 PM, Matthew Gruen wrote: > On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 9:02 AM, Maciej Piechotka > wrote: >> I guess 'works also with B in version X.Y.Z' is also. Most of the above >> changes should not be IMHO in cabal (sorry for answering PS here). >> Especially 'not maintained anymore'

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: GSoC: Hackage 2.0

2010-04-08 Thread Matthew Gruen
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 9:02 AM, Maciej Piechotka wrote: > I guess 'works also with B in version X.Y.Z' is also. Most of the above > changes should not be IMHO in cabal (sorry for answering PS here). > Especially 'not maintained anymore' and 'does not build on recent > GHC' ;) > > > > As we are wi

[Haskell-cafe] Re: GSoC: Hackage 2.0

2010-04-07 Thread Maciej Piechotka
On Wed, 2010-04-07 at 00:40 -0400, Matthew Gruen wrote: > Hi Haskellers, > > I'm Matt Gruen (Gracenotes in #haskell), and the Hackage 2.0 SoC > project at > really piqued my interest. It seems doable, in a summer, to make the > new hacka

[Haskell-cafe] Re: GSoC: Hackage 2.0

2010-04-07 Thread Matthew Gruen
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 12:40 AM, Matthew Gruen wrote: > Hi Haskellers, > > Oh, heh, I apologize if that was more of a wall of text than I had realized. The above wasn't a project proposal itself, more the result of some brainstorming and some research. If you have the time to read it, I'd really