On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 11:44:18PM +0000, Ben Gamari wrote: > Those of you who follow the Haskell subreddit no doubt saw today's post > regarding the status of Hackage 2. As has been said many times in the > past, the primary blocker at this point to the adoption of Hackage 2 > appears to be the lack of an administrator. > > It seems to me this is a poor reason for this effort to be held > up. Having taken a bit of time to consider, I would be willing to put in > some effort to get things moving and would be willing to maintain the > haskell.org Hackage 2.0 instance going forward if necessary.
Hurrah! After 5 years, 1 month and 7 days of doing this, I'm keen to stop. (I've been waiting since Hackage 2 was announced in the Nov 2008 HCAR.) > It seems that this process will go something like this, > 1) Bring Hackage trac back from the dead > 2) Bring up a Hackage 2 instance along-side the existing > hackage.haskell.org > 3) Enlist testers > 4) Let things simmer for a few weeks/months ensuring nothing explodes > 5) After it's agreed that things are stable, eventually swap the > Hackage 1 and 2 instances Sounds like a good plan. I expect there are a number of small things that still need doing to make the new server a complete replacement. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
