Thanks Mark for all your work over the years! Haskell has the adoption it does today in no small part because of your work in making sure it has been consistently easy to install over a range of systems. You’ve put many years and long hours into the work you’ve done as release manager, and we all appreciate it. I certainly suspect the applicatipocalypse is less around-the-bend than you perhaps prophesy (sorry, couldn’t resist). But as they say, horses for courses. I look forward to catching up with you at those meetups and conferences. Everyone else: I’m happy to step in for the immediate time being as release manager to bring to completion the minimal-platform-with-cabal-and-stack plans (aka “Improving the Get Haskell Experience” proposal). I’ve already started to do so a very tiny bit, helping with a new OS X release to help with compatibility with El Capitan. I also want to note that lots of contributions lately have been coming courtesy of  Randy Polen and Erik Rantapaa in particular, so we have some great resources to build on. Especially medium term and long term more volunteers will be very welcome (I certainly can’t imagine remaining “Mr. Platform” for as many tireless years as Mark has). A fair amount of the work I plan to spend on platform stuff in the immediate future will be to take the good work Mark has done in making easier the platform build and release process and further document it. The end goal should be that, at least for the foreseeable future, the release manager job should become straightforward and demystified enough that passing the baton becomes easier yet. If you have experience with installers in either the Windows or Mac world and would like to get involved (maybe just as a voice of experience and wisdom) please reach out to me and let me know. Alternately, if you have a friend with such experience, and you think you could convince them to lend a hand, perhaps suggest to them that they reach out to me :-P. Also, if you have either a range of boxes (or hardware with images of different flavors of systems) and some time to act as a tester — please reach out as well. A designated team of installer-testers would be a good thing as well. Best, Gershom On October 12, 2015 at 11:09:12 PM, Mark Lentczner (mark.lentczner@gmail.com) wrote:

I think this is the right time for me to exit:

The truth is, I still can't bring myself to use a version of Haskell post the Foldable-Traversable-aPocalypse, let alone some future Haskell after the changes now in the works. My personal machines are all still 7.8. My personal projects are all pre-FTP. The Haskell I love to code in, the Haskell I'm passionate about, the Haskell I've advocated for real world use, and the Haskell I like to teach, is 7.8, pre-FTP.

It's not that I'm dead set against change and evolution in a language, or even breaking changes. But FTP and beyond are changes that have lost the balance that Haskell had between abstraction and clarity, between elaborate and practical engineering. I don't see any restraint going forward, so I'm getting off the train.

This puts me in an odd position with respect to Haskell Platform: I find myself building the Platform for a version of Haskell that I don't use. This isn't healthy for either the Platform or me. Hence, I'm resigning as release manager.

I am sad because I believed that Haskell's path to much wider adoption was within reach. Now, especially with the ramping up of the Haskell Prime committee, which seems preordained to codify FTP and beyond into standard, we are approaching our Algol 68 moment: Building a major language revision with less opportunity than it's predecessor.

I'll still see you 'round at meet-ups and conferences. I'll just be coding with an older accent.

- Mark "mzero" Lentczner _______________________________________________ Libraries mailing list Libraries@haskell.org http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/libraries

Dear Mark, Thank you for your efforts. You've gave us a lot of opportunity to meet haskell. There are many people on the back side of the firewall. They can't access over the firewall. HP, all-in-one and web downloadable package, is very useful for them. Thanks to you, we were able to enjoy the haskell. Thank you very much, Takenobu 2015-10-13 12:08 GMT+09:00 Mark Lentczner :

I think this is the right time for me to exit:

The truth is, I still can't bring myself to use a version of Haskell post the Foldable-Traversable-aPocalypse, let alone some future Haskell after the changes now in the works. My personal machines are all still 7.8. My personal projects are all pre-FTP. The Haskell I love to code in, the Haskell I'm passionate about, the Haskell I've advocated for real world use, and the Haskell I like to teach, is 7.8, pre-FTP.

It's not that I'm dead set against change and evolution in a language, or even breaking changes. But FTP and beyond are changes that have lost the balance that Haskell had between abstraction and clarity, between elaborate and practical engineering. I don't see any restraint going forward, so I'm getting off the train.

This puts me in an odd position with respect to Haskell Platform: I find myself building the Platform for a version of Haskell that I don't use. This isn't healthy for either the Platform or me. Hence, I'm resigning as release manager.

I am sad because I believed that Haskell's path to much wider adoption was within reach. Now, especially with the ramping up of the Haskell Prime committee, which seems preordained to codify FTP and beyond into standard, we are approaching our Algol 68 moment: Building a major language revision with less opportunity than it's predecessor.

I'll still see you 'round at meet-ups and conferences. I'll just be coding with an older accent.

- Mark "mzero" Lentczner

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On 10/13/2015 05:08 AM, Mark Lentczner wrote:

I think this is the right time for me to exit:

I'm pretty sure that there are many things that we could agree or disagree on, but *THANK YOU* for your efforts on improving the Haskell ecosystem and your efforts to spread the word! Regards,

Ha ha. You may wonder why I’m replying to a message from four months ago. Mark’s message was written on 13 Oct 2015, and was delivered to me then. And I replied the same day, at rather greater length than below. But then I received it again, yesterday. The very same message! I have no idea why. Email is a Mysterious Medium. Anyway, thanking Mark twice is something he deserves anyway ☺. Simon From: Simon Peyton Jones Sent: 22 February 2016 11:54 To: 'Mark Lentczner' Cc: haskell-platform@projects.haskell.org; Haskell Libraries ; ghc-devs@haskell.org Subject: RE: "Excuse me, I think this i my stop..." - Resigning from the Platform Mark I’m really sorry to see you go. You have played a key leadership role, and have given us a lot of your most precious and inelastic commodity, your own time. Thank you! Simon From: haskell-platform-bounces@projects.haskell.orgmailto:haskell-platform-bounces@projects.haskell.org [mailto:haskell-platform-bounces@projects.haskell.org] On Behalf Of Mark Lentczner Sent: 13 October 2015 04:09 To: haskell-platform@projects.haskell.orgmailto:haskell-platform@projects.haskell.org; Haskell Libraries mailto:libraries@haskell.org>; ghc-devs@haskell.orgmailto:ghc-devs@haskell.org Subject: "Excuse me, I think this i my stop..." - Resigning from the Platform I think this is the right time for me to exit: The truth is, I still can't bring myself to use a version of Haskell post the Foldable-Traversable-aPocalypse, let alone some future Haskell after the changes now in the works. My personal machines are all still 7.8. My personal projects are all pre-FTP. The Haskell I love to code in, the Haskell I'm passionate about, the Haskell I've advocated for real world use, and the Haskell I like to teach, is 7.8, pre-FTP. It's not that I'm dead set against change and evolution in a language, or even breaking changes. But FTP and beyond are changes that have lost the balance that Haskell had between abstraction and clarity, between elaborate and practical engineering. I don't see any restraint going forward, so I'm getting off the train. This puts me in an odd position with respect to Haskell Platform: I find myself building the Platform for a version of Haskell that I don't use. This isn't healthy for either the Platform or me. Hence, I'm resigning as release manager. I am sad because I believed that Haskell's path to much wider adoption was within reach. Now, especially with the ramping up of the Haskell Prime committee, which seems preordained to codify FTP and beyond into standard, we are approaching our Algol 68 moment: Building a major language revision with less opportunity than it's predecessor. I'll still see you 'round at meet-ups and conferences. I'll just be coding with an older accent. - Mark "mzero" Lentczner