On 6 May 2013 09:42, Felipe Almeida Lessa <felipe.le...@gmail.com> wrote: > Just checking the repo wouldn't work. It may still have some activity > but not be maintained and vice-versa.
ok, how about this: if the maintainer feels that their repo and maintenance activities are non-injective they can additionally provide an http-accessible URL for the maintenance activity. Hackage can then do an HTTP HEAD request on that URL and use the Last-Modified response header as an indication of the last time of maintenance activity. I'm being a bit tongue-in-cheek, but actually this would allow you to point hackage to a blog as evidence of maintenance activity. I like the idea of just pinging the code repo. Conrad. > On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 2:19 PM, Doug Burke <dburke...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On May 5, 2013 7:25 AM, "Petr Pudlák" <petr....@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> on another thread there was a suggestion which perhaps went unnoticed by >>> most: >>> >>>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >>>> From: Niklas Hambüchen <m...@nh2.me> >>>> Date: 2013/5/4 >>>> ... >>>> I would even be happy with newhackage sending every package maintainer a >>>> quarterly question "Would you still call your project X 'maintained'?" >>>> for each package they maintain; Hackage could really give us better >>>> indications concerning this. >>> >>> >>> This sounds to me like a very good idea. It could be as simple as "If you >>> consider yourself to be the maintainer of package X please just hit reply >>> and send." If Hackage doesn't get an answer, it'd just would display some >>> red text like "This package seems to be unmaintained since D.M.Y." >>> >>> Best regards, >>> Petr >>> >> >> For those packages that give a repository, a query could be done >> automatically to see when it was last updated. It's not the same thing as >> 'being maintained', but is less annoying for those people with many packages >> on hackage. >> >> Doug >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Haskell-Cafe mailing list >> Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org >> http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe >> > > > > -- > Felipe. > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe