Re: [Haskell-cafe] Anyone up for Google SoC 2010?

On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 6:20 AM, Sittampalam, Ganesh wrote:

Gwern Branwen wrote:

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On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 8:14 PM, Henk-Jan van Tuyl wrote:

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On Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:34:34 +0100, Neil Mitchell wrote:

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Hi Gwern,

Please update: "haskell-src-exts -> haskell-src" **Unknown**

This project was an unqualified success.  haskell-src-exts is now one of the most commonly used Haskell libraries, achieved the goals in the project proposal, and is an essential piece of Haskell infrastructure.

You can see this using Roel van Dijk's reversed dependencies overview [1]: 23 direct and 57 indirect dependencies on haskell-src-exts-1.8.0

Regards, Henk-Jan van Tuyl

And how many of those used haskell-src-exts *before* the SoC project? And would have used it regardless? You can't point to a popular project which got a SoC student, and say look at how popular it is - obviously the SoC student was hugely successful.

Regardless of that, is there any reason to disregard Neil's summary and not update your page?

Ganesh

I prefer to wait. haskell-src-exts was popular before, it was popular after. The question is not whether the patches were applied, or whether the mentor told Google it was successful, but whether it was the best possible use of the SoC slot. If features do not get used, then it wasn't a good SoC. If you know 3 or 4 uses of the new haskell-src-exts features in (relatively) major applications like hlint, then I'll concede the point and mark it a success. -- gwern