ansi-wl-pprint sits underneath a large chunk of our infrastructure: test-framework, criterion, trifecta, etc. Transitively through those dependencies it affects a very large percentage of the Haskell packages we have today, because you can't build almost anybody's testing and benchmarking frameworks without it. We recently had to push out an non-maintainer update for GHC 7.10-rc3 compatibility, and due to NMU update guidelines meant we had to wait 2 weeks before we could do anything. This pretty much ensured that the entire 7.10-rc3 release cycle went by with very very few people able to run their test suites, and little testing was able to be performed in the allotted window. Fortunately, Neil managed to find a rather large regression on his own during this time: http://neilmitchell.blogspot.com/2015/03/finding-ghc-bug.html That said, given that we found issues with linear caused by the changes to Typeable, once we fixed the test suite, this gives me pause. I'm pretty sure nobody downstream of linear tried to run their test suites on rc3. I'd like to not find ourselves in that situation again. We have a policy of considering requests for maintainership transfer after ~6 months of inactivity. Max has been inactive for over a year. I'd like to invoke that today, and formally request to take over maintainership of ansi-wl-pprint. All of the visible activity on https://github.com/batterseapower in the last year or so is on java projects. We've already adopted test-framework. In the event Max returns to active status in the Haskell community, I'd happily relinquish control. Thank you for your consideration, -Edward
On Thu, 26 Mar 2015, Edward Kmett wrote:
We recently had to push out an non-maintainer update for GHC 7.10-rc3 compatibility, and due to NMU update guidelines meant we had to wait 2 weeks before we could do anything. This pretty much ensured that the entire 7.10-rc3 release cycle went by with very very few people able to run their test suites, and little testing was able to be performed in the allotted window.
Can't you test with a fixed but unreleased version of ansi-wl-pprint?
I did so. I don't know that almost anybody else did. -Edward On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 4:29 PM, Henning Thielemann < lemming@henning-thielemann.de> wrote:
On Thu, 26 Mar 2015, Edward Kmett wrote:
We recently had to push out an non-maintainer update for GHC 7.10-rc3
compatibility, and due to NMU update guidelines meant we had to wait 2 weeks before we could do anything. This pretty much ensured that the entire 7.10-rc3 release cycle went by with very very few people able to run their test suites, and little testing was able to be performed in the allotted window.
Can't you test with a fixed but unreleased version of ansi-wl-pprint?
I support this move.
On Thu, Mar 26, 2015, 10:20 PM Edward Kmett
ansi-wl-pprint sits underneath a large chunk of our infrastructure: test-framework, criterion, trifecta, etc.
Transitively through those dependencies it affects a very large percentage of the Haskell packages we have today, because you can't build almost anybody's testing and benchmarking frameworks without it.
We recently had to push out an non-maintainer update for GHC 7.10-rc3 compatibility, and due to NMU update guidelines meant we had to wait 2 weeks before we could do anything. This pretty much ensured that the entire 7.10-rc3 release cycle went by with very very few people able to run their test suites, and little testing was able to be performed in the allotted window.
Fortunately, Neil managed to find a rather large regression on his own during this time: http://neilmitchell.blogspot.com/2015/03/finding-ghc-bug.html
That said, given that we found issues with linear caused by the changes to Typeable, once we fixed the test suite, this gives me pause. I'm pretty sure nobody downstream of linear tried to run their test suites on rc3.
I'd like to not find ourselves in that situation again.
We have a policy of considering requests for maintainership transfer after ~6 months of inactivity. Max has been inactive for over a year.
I'd like to invoke that today, and formally request to take over maintainership of ansi-wl-pprint.
All of the visible activity on https://github.com/batterseapower in the last year or so is on java projects.
We've already adopted test-framework.
In the event Max returns to active status in the Haskell community, I'd happily relinquish control.
Thank you for your consideration,
-Edward _______________________________________________ Libraries mailing list Libraries@haskell.org http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/libraries
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