The whole reason it's deprecated in the first place is because FP Complete would prefer to maintain, and receive issues for, the Stack project instead of minghc. This seems like a pretty relevant detail that's not being discussed here.

Also, why would it be advisable to promote HP over Stack?

Couple of notes:
1) As far as I can tell, this discussion is meaningless without the feedback of newcomers to Haskell who are attempting to set up their environment on Windows. Linux and Mac users don't need minghc and have a package manager anyways to install whatever they want. Experienced users aren't the priority of the Download page as we already know which download we actually want and where it is, even if its less direct than the beginners option.
2) This really just boils down to the political gridlock between HP and Stack. Unless the actual parties involved in that gridlock can hammer out an actual decision directly, why have an obscure vote on an obscure mailing list? Such an act comes off as clandestine.
3) Any merit in a decision to favor HP over Stack would have to be grounded in actual data as to which is the most surefire and simple way for newcomers to get Haskell up and running on a Windows machine. I personally don't have enough data points to make an educated decision here.

As a makeshift vote, I would elect that we keep the Download list the way it is or just remove the Minimal Installer (which would obviously result with Stack at the top and I'm assuming that's controversial for some reason.)

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Thanks!
- Michael Carpenter