On 19 Feb 2014, at 11:19, Lindsey Kuper wrote:

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On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 5:27 PM, Omari Norman 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... .

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* Brandon Allbery [2014-02-19 10:09:30-0500]

On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 3:36 AM, Dan Frumin wrote:

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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 2:41 PM, Lindsey Kuper wrote:

On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 10:45 AM, Roman Cheplyaka wrote:

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* Brandon Allbery [2014-02-19 10:09:30-0500]

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On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 3:36 AM, Dan Frumin wrote:

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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

If you'd like to come help Haskell Platform, please join the mailing list: *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!*