On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 10:29 PM, Magnus Therning wrote:

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Next, who are the ops on #arch-haskell on freenode?

I don't know who is. I'm never on IRC as I've never really gotten into it, also my work situation doesn't allow it during the day.

We're probably all in different timezones anyway. It would be great to leave it open whenever you can and/or read the logs (but there probably aren't any public logs), at least while we're restarting arch-haskell and it's low traffic. Freenode's ChanServ suggests that someone called "dons" is the sole operator of #arch-haskell. (S)he has never been online at the same time as me, but was possibly around 2 days ago. I left a message for dons on the Freenode memoserv asking to change the topic. Dons, if you're on this mailing list, pipe up. If you've lost interest in #arch-haskell, then give operator status to me (xrchz).

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I suggest changing the topic to point to those wiki pages (unless we have a better homepage?) Is the blog still under control - a new blog post might be nice.

Yes, I have the account for that. Feel free to write something for it if you want to.

When I get a chance... also, not sure what to say yet :) An intro to Fabio's idea for distributing maintenance would be good.

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Finally, can we arrange an IRC meeting some time in the near future to discuss Fabio's experiment with [haskell-extra], the possibility of merging distributed repositories into one single public-facing one, and to get started on revival? I suggest some day in the first week of October. We can get more specific as more people reply to this message. I will commit to being at the meeting, but it really only makes sense if the people currently involved in arch-haskell are there and not just newcomers like me.

Not a bad idea.

Will wait a few days for chanops to appear. Plan B is to forcibly takeover and/or start a new channel, and then advertise the meeting time in the topic, on the wiki, and on this list (and maybe arch forums too).

/M

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On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 5:27 PM, wrote:

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Is the blog still under control - a new blog post might be nice.

Yes, I have the account for that. Feel free to write something for it if you want to.

When I get a chance... also, not sure what to say yet :)

It would be really helpful to me and, I think, to anyone looking to get involved, if we start by (even briefly) documenting the current state of the project, then describe where we want it to go, and finally start talking about how we're thinking of getting there.

The wiki is the perfect place to do that, since it already describes aims etc. It also doesn't do a bad job on the current state. Update it if you disagree :)

pete

On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 6:13 PM, wrote:

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The wiki is the perfect place to do that, since it already describes aims etc. It also doesn't do a bad job on the current state. Update it if you disagree :)

Agreed! But I think perhaps, if/when we get more organized, a "State of the Hunion" post might be a good way to kick things off semi-officially.

Would you be happy to write this or start this, pete?

pete

Hi Don Stewart - are you there? See this thread: http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/arch-haskell/2012-September/002160.html (No reply on the Arch Haskell mailing list or on IRC for a few days, so I'm trying a couple of his email addresses.) On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 9:47 PM, Magnus Therning wrote:

On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 09:49:48AM +0100, Ramana Kumar wrote:

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On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 10:29 PM, Magnus Therning wrote:

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Next, who are the ops on #arch-haskell on freenode?

I don't know who is. I'm never on IRC as I've never really gotten into it, also my work situation doesn't allow it during the day.

We're probably all in different timezones anyway. It would be great to leave it open whenever you can and/or read the logs (but there probably aren't any public logs), at least while we're restarting arch-haskell and it's low traffic.

Freenode's ChanServ suggests that someone called "dons" is the sole operator of #arch-haskell.

That would be Don Stewart, the person who started the ArchHaskell work a few years ago. He's since moved on to other things, but he still frequents the Haskell mailing list (in particular the HP one).

/M

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