Inaccuracy in Haskell Platform website: it says version 2013.2.0.0 includes containers-0.4.2.1: http://www.haskell.org/platform/changelog.html However the containers included in GHC 7.6.3 and, therefore, with this version of Haskell Platform is in fact version 0.5.0.0. There's no apparent contact link on the website; who should I report this to? Thanks. --Omari
On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 5:27 PM, Omari Norman <omari@smileystation.com> wrote:
Inaccuracy in Haskell Platform website: it says version 2013.2.0.0 includes containers-0.4.2.1:
http://www.haskell.org/platform/changelog.html
However the containers included in GHC 7.6.3 and, therefore, with this version of Haskell Platform is in fact version 0.5.0.0.
There's no apparent contact link on the website; who should I report this to? Thanks. --Omari
Hi, Omari, You could file an issue at https://github.com/haskell/haskell-platform/issues . The last time I found a typo on the Haskell Platform website, I opened a pull request to fix it, and it was merged a couple of months later. If you want to do that, the file you want to change in this case is https://github.com/haskell/haskell-platform/blob/master/download-website/cha... . Lindsey
On 19 Feb 2014, at 11:19, Lindsey Kuper <lindsey@composition.al> wrote:
On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 5:27 PM, Omari Norman <omari@smileystation.com> wrote: Inaccuracy in Haskell Platform website: it says version 2013.2.0.0 includes containers-0.4.2.1:
http://www.haskell.org/platform/changelog.html
However the containers included in GHC 7.6.3 and, therefore, with this version of Haskell Platform is in fact version 0.5.0.0.
There's no apparent contact link on the website; who should I report this to? Thanks. --Omari
Hi, Omari,
You could file an issue at https://github.com/haskell/haskell-platform/issues .
The last time I found a typo on the Haskell Platform website, I opened a pull request to fix it, and it was merged a couple of months later.
Ha, to be honest, it doesn't sound very encouraging :P
If you want to do that, the file you want to change in this case is https://github.com/haskell/haskell-platform/blob/master/download-website/cha... .
Lindsey _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 3:36 AM, Dan Frumin <difrumin@gmail.com> wrote:
The last time I found a typo on the Haskell Platform website, I opened a pull request to fix it, and it was merged a couple of months later.
Ha, to be honest, it doesn't sound very encouraging :P
I suspect more helping hands would be gratefully accepted. -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allbery.b@gmail.com ballbery@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net
* Brandon Allbery <allbery.b@gmail.com> [2014-02-19 10:09:30-0500]
On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 3:36 AM, Dan Frumin <difrumin@gmail.com> wrote:
The last time I found a typo on the Haskell Platform website, I opened a pull request to fix it, and it was merged a couple of months later.
Ha, to be honest, it doesn't sound very encouraging :P
I suspect more helping hands would be gratefully accepted.
What do you mean, specifically? Lindsey said she had sent a pull request. What else could she do? Roman
On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 10:45 AM, Roman Cheplyaka <roma@ro-che.info> wrote:
* Brandon Allbery <allbery.b@gmail.com> [2014-02-19 10:09:30-0500]
On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 3:36 AM, Dan Frumin <difrumin@gmail.com> wrote:
The last time I found a typo on the Haskell Platform website, I opened a pull request to fix it, and it was merged a couple of months later.
Ha, to be honest, it doesn't sound very encouraging :P
I suspect more helping hands would be gratefully accepted.
What do you mean, specifically? Lindsey said she had sent a pull request. What else could she do?
I don't think Brandon was implying that I should have done anything differently -- I think he just meant that the project might benefit from another person to merge pull requests, as evidenced by the fact that it took a while for mine to get merged. Lindsey
On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 2:41 PM, Lindsey Kuper <lindsey@composition.al>wrote:
On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 10:45 AM, Roman Cheplyaka <roma@ro-che.info> wrote:
* Brandon Allbery <allbery.b@gmail.com> [2014-02-19 10:09:30-0500]
On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 3:36 AM, Dan Frumin <difrumin@gmail.com> wrote:
The last time I found a typo on the Haskell Platform website, I opened a pull request to fix it, and it was merged a couple of months later.
Ha, to be honest, it doesn't sound very encouraging :P
I suspect more helping hands would be gratefully accepted.
What do you mean, specifically? Lindsey said she had sent a pull request. What else could she do?
I don't think Brandon was implying that I should have done anything differently -- I think he just meant that the project might benefit from another person to merge pull requests, as evidenced by the fact that it took a while for mine to get merged.
Yes. Or, even more to the point, it's run by volunteers and it is as responsive as the available time from the available volunteers; if you want faster responses, you need more people with more available time to put into it. (Volunteer projects are almost invariably chronically short on manpower to get stuff done.) -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allbery.b@gmail.com ballbery@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net
* Brandon Allbery <allbery.b@gmail.com> [2014-02-19 15:12:24-0500]
On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 2:41 PM, Lindsey Kuper <lindsey@composition.al>wrote:
On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 10:45 AM, Roman Cheplyaka <roma@ro-che.info> wrote:
* Brandon Allbery <allbery.b@gmail.com> [2014-02-19 10:09:30-0500]
On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 3:36 AM, Dan Frumin <difrumin@gmail.com> wrote:
The last time I found a typo on the Haskell Platform website, I opened a pull request to fix it, and it was merged a couple of months later.
Ha, to be honest, it doesn't sound very encouraging :P
I suspect more helping hands would be gratefully accepted.
What do you mean, specifically? Lindsey said she had sent a pull request. What else could she do?
I don't think Brandon was implying that I should have done anything differently -- I think he just meant that the project might benefit from another person to merge pull requests, as evidenced by the fact that it took a while for mine to get merged.
Yes. Or, even more to the point, it's run by volunteers and it is as responsive as the available time from the available volunteers; if you want faster responses, you need more people with more available time to put into it.
(Volunteer projects are almost invariably chronically short on manpower to get stuff done.)
My point was that people *are* willing to help. It's not the case that they are just demanding. I'm sure that if Mark (or whoever is responsible for that page) called for help to review and merge pull requests, people would respond. Daniil Frumin has offered his help even without such a call. Manpower does not appear to be the issue here. Rather, people are not given an opportunity to help. See also http://ro-che.info/articles/2014-02-08-my-haskell-will.html. I think HP ought to have a backup person (or even a team). Roman
If you'd like to come help Haskell Platform, please join the mailing list: *haskell-platform@projects.haskell.org <haskell-platform@projects.haskell.org>* Work on the platform tends to be very seasonal. I apologize for not getting web fixes in sooner. There are some bigger changes afoot with the platform. For one, I'm deep in the middle of recoding the entire build system for it with several aims: - A fully automated build (based on shake) of both the source tarball, generic linux, and OS targets - Ability to run on build bots and validate as we improve the platform - Support for running validation tests of included packages - Automatic generation of most of the web site (currently all by hand) - Generation of "what version of package x is in HP y?" chart With these changes we should be able to "turn the crank" more quickly, be able to put out point releases if bugs in packages warrant, and focus our energies on getting more diverse packages under the platform umbrella. If you'd like to help with the project, here are some pots that need stirring: - New web site design. Current one is stale, and probably isn't the best way to present the info. (*) - We are in issue tracking hell: The project uses trac, but many people use github to file bugs and features. This needs sorting out, cleaning up, and migrating all one way or the other. Then the list needs curation. - Automating builds for various OS targets (*) - Bringing existing packages under test. That is, where packages have tests, getting the new build system to use them. (*) - Writing some form of "whole system test" for the platform. Perhaps compiling pandoc is sufficient! :-) Or perhaps several key applications (real or synthetic) that cover the platform. It would be nice to be able to validate that a build and install works! Now, items marked (*) may want to wait a week or two until I have the first version of the new build up on github... but finding volunteers for these would be great. - Mark "waiting for quarter million lines to compile… again" Lentczner Release Manager, Haskell Platform *P.S.: The platform now adds 34 packages to the GHC core: 248k lines of source in 1.6k files, of which 164k lines are haskell in 1.1k files!*
I can take on a role of merging small pull requests concerning documentation (and I try to send those myself every time I see a typo or mistake in the documentation), but I suspect one has to be an active participant in the project in order to gain full commit access. Btw, I didn't mean to discourage anyone for contributing. Nor I meant to degrade the Platform developers with my comment. On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 7:09 PM, Brandon Allbery <allbery.b@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 3:36 AM, Dan Frumin <difrumin@gmail.com> wrote:
The last time I found a typo on the Haskell Platform website, I opened a pull request to fix it, and it was merged a couple of months later.
Ha, to be honest, it doesn't sound very encouraging :P
I suspect more helping hands would be gratefully accepted.
-- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allbery.b@gmail.com ballbery@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net
-- Sincerely yours, -- Daniil
On Feb 17, 2014 2:27 PM, "Omari Norman" <omari@smileystation.com> wrote:
Inaccuracy in Haskell Platform website: it says version 2013.2.0.0 includes containers-0.4.2.1:
http://www.haskell.org/platform/changelog.html
However the containers included in GHC 7.6.3 and, therefore, with this version of Haskell Platform is in fact version 0.5.0.0.
There's no apparent contact link on the website; who should I report this to? Thanks. --Omari _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
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