Re: [Haskell-community] Request for comment: New haskell.org download page

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Michael Snoyman writes:

There was a lot of discussion on Twitter about this thread, but almost none of those participants wrote into this discussion. When I asked why[1], I got (at least[2]) two forms of response:

1. I don't want to sign up for another mailing list just to vote

I've been there before.

2. Previous actions made it seem like the voting would be inconsequential to the outcome

This is most unfortunate. The voting certainly matters, since I'm looking for community feedback to finalize the edits.

To try and lower the barrier to entry, I created a Google Form with the same questions as above:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1w2wKSxn5YN4LtSXYHvFT2IFw_BDaT_2cjUkP9pDeqLQ...

Thanks for this additional data. I've counted the most votes on the ML for #4. Several of those voting for #4 also voted for #5. The Google Form seems to strongly prefer #3 and #5. So let's drop this down to the three main choices: (A) Stack Minimal HP (B) Minimal HP Stack (C) Minimal Stack HP (A) has a very strong showing on the Google Form, but not on the ML. The arguments I've collected right now for not preferring (A) are: - Stack hasn't proven itself over time yet, the way cabal has. - Stack doesn't actually download a Haskell compiler. - Stack does not make using "ghci" easy. As for whether HP should be first or not (B or C), I don't have strong feelings, since we *are* going to merge the two options. I'd like to open a second round of voting now on these three options, unless someone wishes to make a case for those that were dropped.

Given the obvious sentiment around (2) mentioned above, I think it's important to pay attention to what people are saying outside of this mailing list.

If you know of discussions happening elsewhere (SO, reddit, Google+, etc), please let me know, since I don't follow those communities. I only happened upon your Twitter discussion because Gabriel retweeted it. John