Thanks a lot Hécate! Re: adding Nix-related stuff. I was thinking about it a lot and was planning to work on it after I'm free (in the Fall). If Yvan has a plan, that's amazing! We accumulated a lot of stuff that we use in CI (Sphynx, Fourmolu, HLint, doctest… maybe Weeder in the future?), so I think it's exactly the right time to get this kind of solution. Full disclaimer, I use NixOS and get to feel the mild annoyance of not having the support. In the past we heard concerns about maintenance cost of a Nix-based solution. I just wanna say, I'm ready to put some of my time to make sure it's up and running. I'd just make one request: please-please add a CI job that would check that this solution is up to date. It doesn't have to run tests, I think. Just lint and build would be enough I think. -- Best, Artem On Thu, Aug 3, 2023, 2:35 PM Theophile Hécate Choutri via cabal-devel < cabal-devel@haskell.org> wrote:
Hi everyone
You will find below the minutes of the Cabal meeting that was held on the 03/08/2023. This meeting occurs every two weeks and is absolutely open to developers, newcomers and stakeholders. Do contact the dev team if you want an invitation to the event.
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## 3.10.2.0 patch release
Hécate: The pipeline situation seems to have been fixed, as such Mikołaj & I are able to run GitLab pipelines for cabal. I suggest that once the following PRs are merged, the release process (including security fixes) resume. I'd ideally like it to be done by next week.
* https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/9088
## 3.12.1.0 major release
Hécate: In accordance with the planned schedule of GHC 9.8, we would like to perform a major release at the end of August. This would be a good idea to highly promote cabal-head nightlies and make sure that the 3.12.1.0 release is already used by people in all but name before we formally create the tag and publish the binaries.
(f-a et al.): Things we should warn users about: - `cabal check`: cabal now warns about missing upper bounds. I have a PR ready to address this (ignore some checks) but #8427 needs to be merged first.
## Other topics
### Yvan
* I have a working `flake.nix` and `shell.nix` that declare my dev environment to work on Cabal, do you think I should share it in a PR? * I was about to write a detailed issue where I explain why https://cabal.readthedocs.io/en/latest/nix-integration.html doesn't work at all (or it's very poorly documented and I don't understand how to properly use it). Instead of fixing it, I'm in favor of removing it because I think it's overall not a good idea to have this kind of integration. * Hécate: Action Item: We should take the pulse of the community for a couple of releases. We should point to https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Haskell for transition. * If time permits, I also wanted to have feedback on my currently open PRs https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pulls/yvan-sraka.
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