Merge pull request #3047 from lwm/bits-and-bobs

Add note about notifications
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@ -8,6 +8,19 @@ The idea behind Stackage is that, if all packages work with the newest versions
Packages in Stackage are not patched: all package changes occur upstream in Hackage.
## Github and Notifications
Stackage uses Github notifications to reduce overhead of contacting individual
package maintainers through various channels. As a package maintainer, you will
receive notifications for a number of reasons, package build failures of
different sorts, blockages and bounds issues, etc.
Please note, Github does some throttling on the number people that can be
notified within one issue. This means that on issues created with a large
number of packages affected, maintainers may not receive a notification. This
is not ideal, but Stackage is largely a manual process and done on a best
effort basis.
## Adding a package
Anyone can add any package to Stackage but you may only add packages under your own name. It's highly encouraged that the actual package maintainer is also the Stackage maintainer, if that is not the case you should drop the package maintainer a note first.
@ -45,7 +58,7 @@ so commit messages like "update build-constraints.yaml" are not helpful).
newly uploaded to Hackage appear to our build server. If you just
uploaded a package to Hackage that you're trying to get included, we
recommend waiting an hour before opening the PR. You can verify this
by making sure the latest version is listed at
by making sure the latest version is listed at
https://github.com/commercialhaskell/all-cabal-metadata/tree/master/packages/.
## Uploading a new package version
@ -56,7 +69,6 @@ If the new version doesn't compile then the package author should upload a fixed
If a package's test suite is failing, the first job is to investigate why. If this is due to a bad interaction with versions of other packages in Stackage, then it is the responsibility of the maintainer to fix the test suite. In some situations, it is acceptable to not run the test suite.
## Following dependency upgrades
If a new version of a dependency is released, and that stops your package compiling/passing the tests, then it is your responsibility to modify your package. It is recommended that all package maintainers follow the dependencies of their packages on [Packdeps](http://packdeps.haskellers.com/), typically using the RSS feeds.