Well - here's where we are:

I'm still trying to finish the new build for the platform. The work can be seen here:

haskell/haskell-platform at new-build

Please check over the current state of the packages and versions for 2014.1:

https://github.com/haskell/haskell-platform/blob/new-build/hptool/src/Releases2014.hs

If you make distributions, please see the README and try building, at very build the source tar ball, then run through your packaging process. Even better would be if you can get you packaging process integrated into the build.

If you feel like helping there are several areas that need help:

If you want to hack the build, check out the TO DO list:
https://github.com/haskell/haskell-platform/blob/new-build/notes/BUILD-NEW#L105
The wiki (now on github) can use some love: Home · haskell/haskell-platform Wiki
The issue list (now on github) can use some love: Issues · haskell/haskell-platform
If you want to hack the plan for automatically generating the website, contact me
If you want to hack the plan for including automated testing into the build, contact me
If you want to bring up a continuous build system for the platform (pretty please), contact me

Let's make it happen!

- Mark