On Sun, Apr 03, 2022 at 07:57:47PM +0200, Bardur Arantsson wrote:
On 03/04/2022 19.34, Tom Ellis wrote:
Well, good question, but back at you: who are you discouraging from Haskell by keeping a large number of complex, unmaintained, possibly completely wrong, installation instruction on the Downloads page?
I have no strong feelings either way, but would it perhaps be viable to just leave that "Alternative installation options" as a simple link to a separate page perhaps be sufficent to guide people to use either of the two 'main' options while still leaving the alternatives semi-documented? Has that been considered?
(I think just adding a disclaimer that the 'alternative methods' are not supported per se, but perhaps simultaneously encouraging corrections might be a way to lessen the maintenance burden?)
The problem that I am trying to solve is that no one with maintenance responsibility for the haskell.org website knows if those alternative installation methods work, are up-to-date, are currently supported by the (external) teams that put them together, etc.. It is not doing right by the community to publish information that we cannot support or verify. If someone is willing to be the "owner" of a particular installation method, to ensure it is kept up to date and high quality, then we'll keep it! To reiterate what I said in my first email, we can ... "Keep (some of) the alternative installation options and find community volunteers to maintain them. The volunteers will be responsible for ensuring verifying on a regular basis that their instructions are still working, submitting timely corrections when necessary, and responding promptly on the issue tracker to questions about their installation instructions" Tom