Fumiaki Kinoshita
Any updates? It's a crisis that the standard library is unavailable on Hackage...
I agree; having a release out for two months without full representation on Hackage is quite suboptimal. Unfortunately, the Hackage trustees have quite a bit on their plate. I have spoken to Herbert, who usually handles the boot library uploads, several times about this and I have gleaned that the situation is as follows: * hackage-server needs to be updated to Cabal-3, tested, and the deployment updated before the remaining boot packages can be uploaded (admittedly I'm not familiar with the technical reasons for this dependency, but this is what I have been told) This is an area where a dedicated volunteer could help enormously. hackage-server is just another Haskell program (albeit one lacking contributors); all that updating it would require is time. * Herbert has said that he also wants to take a careful look through the packages before uploading them to ensure that no serious mistakes are committed permanently to the Hackage cache For what it is worth, I have asked several times whether I can help with the upload process but have been turned down repeatedly. I can't claim that I fully understand the reasoning behind this, but I can nevertheless respect the decision. I also am reluctant to make demands on the time of others. In particular, the trustees are all volunteers with lives and jobs who carry out often quite thankless work. We all owe them an enormous debt of gratitude for maintaining the infrastructure that we rely on every day, usually without thinking twice. I wish I could offer a clever idea for accelerating this process; sadly, the problem seems to be an unfortunate combination of technical dependencies (e.g. the boot library upload requiring a hackage-server update), a lack of contributors to help resolve this dependency, and a small but very busy set of core contributors. It seems to me that it would be best if we could grow the set of people who are regularly involved in Hackage administration to avoid this happening in the future. However, this will require that people who don't mind doing a bit of less-than-thrilling work (e.g. updating hackage-server) pitch in. Cheers, - Ben