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

[José Pedro Magalhães]

On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 09:43, Conrad Parker <conrad at metadecks.org> wrote:

> On 1 November 2011 03:43, Alexander Kjeldaas
> <alexander.kjeldaas at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 31 October 2011 17:22, Yitzchak Gale <gale at 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 be turned on and off by the author.
> >> (Spam is not nice.)
> >>
> >
> > How about sending an email to haskell-package-<packate-name>@haskell.org
> ,
> > and then people can join that mailing list if they are interested in that
> > sort of stuff?  Mailman is good at doing subscribe and unsubscribe.
>
> +1
>
> I like this because it is opt-in for the maintainer, and also allows
> anyone else who is interested in the package to track it.
>
> Per-package RSS updates of build failures would also be useful.
>

+1


Pedro


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