This is looking like a great year for the platform!Here's the state of platform as I see it shaping up for 2013.2:
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I'm especially interested in seeing aeson, criterion and test-framework make it into the platform. I'd also like to become more involved in the Haskell ecosystem, so - is there anything I can do to help? While I'm roughly familiar with the philosophy of the platform is there any thing I should read about how to contribute? Are there clear guidelines on the steps that a package needs to go through before it can be added?Proposals I'd like to see for 2013.2:
Proposals that will take some more thought, hence not likely for 2013.2:
- unordered-containers: though, perhaps Johan is going to meld that into containers? I'd like to see the development plan for this (and hashable) settled.
- aeson: we need this in the platform, as JSON has become ubiquitous. It requires settling hashable and unordered-containers.
- test-framework & friends: these require a number of other packages like ansi-terminal and hostname. I suspect they should all just go in, but it will take some time to review and prep all that.
- criterion & statistics: both require a number of smaller packages we don't have like erf and math-functions. Again, will take time to sort out.
I'd also through in configuration into the mix (configurator?), and also perhaps command line argument parsing (optparse-applicative? cmdtheline?).Areas still looking for good candidates (if these are simple could make it this round):
- simple db like dbm or sqlite support
- file utils for common file system manipulations
- logging
- 2D graphics - perhaps gloss and/or diagrams?