haskell / haskell/hackage-server
Rank package search results by latest GHC supported
- Dominant language
- Haskell
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Description
Is it possible to add "latest GHC supported" as a ranking factor?
Several times I had a very frustrating experience, when I clicked the first search result, assured myself that the package fits my requirements, spent some time learning API (and liked it!) - only to discover later that the latest supported GHC is roughly 7.10.
I do not know technical details: is it easy to extract "latest GHC supported" metric from Hackage Matrix? Maybe "upper `base` bound" may serve as a good approximation, if it is easier to access.
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Research direction
Start by tracing how package search results are ranked and how the Hackage Matrix exposes GHC support. Compare using the latest supported GHC with using the upper base bound, then define and validate the ranking behavior for packages with different compatibility levels.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- haskell
- Domain
- search
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 30/100