June 2016 - Haskell-community

Request for comment: New haskell.org download page
by John Wiegley 12 Jul '16

12 Jul '16

As mentioned earlier, I've been working on a draft version of the new Haskell download page in consultation with Simon PJ, Michael Snoyman, and Gershom Bazerman. The goal has been twofold: a) add stack as an explicit option, and b) add text to each option indicating clearly what it provides and where to get further help, so users can understand the options and make an informed choice. We've sought to keep the text factual, rather than imply that one option is "best" for any particular class of user, since opinions vary so widely on this point. At the following link, you'll find a draft version of the new page for comment: https://gist.github.com/jwiegley/153d968ddfc9046ee4c9 Hopefully it can go live on haskell.org next week, so please contribute your edits here, or by pull request. The goal is to explain each option so that people can make an informed decision. However, the order of presentation does imply that whatever comes first is "preferred" even if that is not the intent. The order currently given is HP, Stack, Minimal. Chris has already made a few points about changing this order, so let's continue that discussion and see where it leads us. Bear in mind that this is (hopefully) only an interim state. The plan is to add Stack to the Platform, and render the Platform minimal, which will consolidate this page down to a single, recommended download path. At the bottom of the gist are incomplete sections on third party libraries and alternate installation approaches. These have yet to be written. The hope is to resolve the top content first and sort the rest out after; however, ideas for that content is most welcome too. Thank you, John Wiegley

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Test -- please disregard
by Gershom B 16 Jun '16

16 Jun '16

We're checking if a mailman upgrade went smoothly. --gershom

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Design Proposal for Haskell.org
by Gershom B 03 Jun '16

03 Jun '16

I wanted to direct folks’ attention to this PR for haskell.org https://github.com/haskell-infra/hl/pull/162 David Deutsch has gone through and done some CSS cleanup and modernization on haskell.org, as well as pulling the underlying resources (css, etc) into a more standard packaging so that it should be easier to evolve in the future. There’s a lot more work we can do on the website, but I think this is a good start and I’d be happy to merge in this stuff as is. However, it would be nice to have some more eyes/conversation on this before we pull the trigger. Thoughts? —Gershom

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