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 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 towards something s

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 co

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 Jason Dagit
On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 2:45 AM, Max Bolingbroke wrote: > On 1 November 2011 09:00, 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 >> Hackage, but you do not want to hear about it whe

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" 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 error for thousands o

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 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 http://www.hask

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 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 mistake, since th

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 di

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 ap

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 wrote: >> or even >> >>  Maintainer: Ketil Malde  -- 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 what ketil wanted after all

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 wrote: > or even > >  Maintainer: Ketil Malde  -- 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 ivan.miljeno...@gmail.com IvanMiljenovic.wordpres

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

2011-11-01 Thread Ketil Malde
Yitzchak Gale 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. :-) > it m

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 wrote: > Max Bolingbroke 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 comp

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 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 in this categ

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

2011-11-01 Thread Ketil Malde
Max Bolingbroke 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 fail to compile on H

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

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 wrote: > On 1 November 2011 03:43, Alexander Kjeldaas > wrote: > > > > On 31 October 2011 17:22, Yitzchak Gale wrote: > >> > >> Gregory Crosswhite wrote: > >> > could [Hackage] have a feature where when a > >> > working package breaks with a new versi

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 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 packages fail

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 wrote: > > On 31 October 2011 17:22, Yitzchak Gale 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

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

2011-11-01 Thread Ketil Malde
Yitzchak Gale 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 autho

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 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 be tu

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, Yi

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 wrote: > 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 packa

[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 feature