Not to discourage this brainstorming, but many of what people think to be "new ideas" are being implemented by a GsoC student [1] already. Yay!
>>> I've rather recently started to use cabal-install to install packages >>> from Hackage. Unfortunately, so far many packages fail to install. I >>> try to email authors/maintainers, but when I check build logs on >>> Hackage, I discover that some of these packages have failed building for >>> some time. The hackage build logs can be misleading - many system specific packages may or may not build on hackage because it just isn't the right OS. Still other packages require particular C libraries that the hackage server doesn't have. For these reasons the build reports will come from end developer systems (see linked blog). >>> Wouldn't it make sense to provide automated notification of the package >>> author when a package fails to build? I certainly would like to know >>> about it, but of course, I never remember to check back to see. Yes, but because this comes from the cabal-installer vs hackage there was more work needing done. >> How about taking it one step further, actually "hiding" unmaintained >> packages after a grace period? Talk to Gracenotes and Coutts - they can be found on #hackage frequently. Cheers, Thomas [1] http://cogracenotes.wordpress.com/ _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe