> == Call for help: DocBook to AsciiDoc == > > So, we're asking the public: Is anyone willing to step up and help here? For example, it may be possible to get a long ways with just `pandoc`, but we need someone to finish it - and in return, we'll help along the way!
Do you have anymore information on this? Tickets? Current status? This is the first I've heard about the proposed conversion, and I follow ghc-devs@ pretty closely. On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 10:47 AM, Austin Seipp <[email protected]> wrote: > (You can find a copy of this post online at > https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/blog/weekly20150414) > > Hi *, > > It's been a few weeks since the last news bulletin - your editor > apologizes about that. It's actually been a relatively slow few weeks > here too, and busy-ness outside of GHC has attracted some of my > attention. Despite that, GHC 7.10.1 was released, a new HP alpha is > out, and things are moving along smoothly. Now that the release is > done, things are quitely moving along in `HEAD` - with people > committing code with reckless abandon, of course. > > This week, GHC HQ met up, but it's been very light since the 7.10.1 > release. Currently there isn't anything pushing us to do a 7.10.2 > release at least for a few more weeks it looks like - but see below. > > - We puzzled a bit about the release status of 7.10.2, and thought: > it's only holding up people who are depending on it. So, who's > depending on it, and what do they need fixed? See below for more. > > - We also talked a bit about performance - it seems the compiler has > been getting much slower over time since the 7.8.x release series, and > it's time to reign it in. Austin will be spending his week > investigating a bit of this, and the causes. > > == 7.10.2 Status == > > So, you may be wondering when the 7.10.2 release is. The trick is it > happens when you tell us it should happen! > > So far, taking a look at milestone:7.10.2, we've fixed about half the > bugs we currently have marked down to fix. But we're probably going to > punt some of those - and we're not sure all the ones that are there > should be. > > So this is a call: **If you need something to be fixed during 7.10.2, > please file a ticket, set the milestone, and alert us**. The sooner > the better, because it'll inform us as to when we should release. > Emailing `[email protected]` is also a sure-fire way to get our > attention. > > And remember: you can always find out the latest about the next > release at the Status page (in this case, for 7.10.2) - > https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Status/GHC-7.10.2 > > == Call for help: DocBook to AsciiDoc == > > The GHC team needs some help. A few months ago, we put out a poll to > convert our DocBook-based manual to AsciiDoc. > > The poll had a mostly lukewarm reception, with the idea that it will > A) make life easier for people who frequently modify the users guide, > and B) make life easier for people who add things irregularly, as a > lower barrier to entry. > > It looks like we still **want** to do this - but alas, many of us > don't have time! > > So, we're asking the public: Is anyone willing to step up and help > here? For example, it may be possible to get a long ways with just > `pandoc`, but we need someone to finish it - and in return, we'll help > along the way! > > == List chatter == > > - Austin Seipp announced GHC > 7.10.1. https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/ghc-devs/2015-March/008700.html > > - Mark Lentczner announced an alpha Haskell Platform > release. > https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/ghc-devs/2015-March/008724.html > > - David Macek announced MSYS2 packages for GHC on Windows, and also > asked for some help with continuous windows building - Windows > hackers should help out! > https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/ghc-devs/2015-March/008735.html > > - Jan Stolarek reports about increased memory usage with GHC 7.10.1. > https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/ghc-devs/2015-April/008751.html > > - Thomas Miedema chimed into a thread started by Karel Gardas about > better parallelizing the GHC build - and hopefully we can get > something good out of > it. https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/ghc-devs/2015-April/008749.html > > - Austin Seipp made a call for help on working on and improving the > GHC homepage, and luckily Sergey Bushnyak answered the call and > has helped out! > https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/ghc-devs/2015-April/008762.html > > - Ozgun Ataman kicked off a thread about slower compilation times, > with some nasty numbers. It's becoming more clear compiler > performance should be a priority for 7.12, and we've let some > things slip away from us: > https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/ghc-devs/2015-April/008766.html > > - A GHC user, Dave, asked the list about some questions with Cross > Compilation, as he's attempting to get GHC to work natively inside > the Open Embedded build environment. Unfortunately, things haven't > been going well so far, and any input from enterprising hackers is > appreciated: > https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/ghc-devs/2015-April/008774.html > > - Dan Aloni has started a discussion about improving GHC's error > messages, spurred by a popular blog post he wrote and posted on > Reddit about some Happy/GHC improvements he's made. This is a > difficult area (error messages in general are hard) to work on, so > thanks to Dan for helping! > https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/ghc-devs/2015-April/008778.html > > - Simon Peyton Jones started a discussion about > `GeneralizedNewtypeDeriving` and Safe Haskell, in particular, > whatever the current status, our documentation doesn't accurately > reflect it! Perhaps someone could help out writing the > documentation based on the current status quo? > https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/ghc-devs/2015-April/008783.html > > - Tamar Christina started a thread about replacing `ghc-split`, an > old Perl script inside GHC, but he wanted to know: what do we do > about a regex replacement? Mikhail Glushenkov spoke up about a > similar decision the LLVM developers used: to use the OpenBSD > regex implementation. > https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/ghc-devs/2015-April/008785.html > > - Alan Zimmerman has posted several questions and threads about the > parser and the status of API annotations, which he's been > furiously working on now that GHC 7.10 is being used on > Hackage. Interested onlookers could learn a thing or two! > https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/ghc-devs/2015-April/008782.html > & > https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/ghc-devs/2015-April/008787.html > & > https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/ghc-devs/2015-April/008794.html > > - Gabor Greif has a question about some seemingly strange behavior > regarding the interaction between poly-kinded `data` types and > overlapping instances. Richard sez: this behavior is > expected. > https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/ghc-devs/2015-April/008804.html > > == Noteworthy commits == > > - Commit de1160be047790afde4ec76de0a81ba3be0c73fa - refactor the > story around switch cases (with a code-size improvement) > > - Commit 995e8c1c8692b60c907c7d2ccea179d52ca8e69e - drop old > `integer-gmp-0.5` source code. > > - Commit 59f7a7b6091e9c0564f3f370d09398d8c9cd8ad5 - Restore unwind > information generation (fixes DWARF generation) > > - Commit 9f0f99fd41ff82cc223d3b682703e508efb564d2 - Fix an old bug > in the demand analyzer (with some nice compiler performance > boosts). > > - Commit a7524eaed33324e2155c47d4a705bef1d70a2b5b - Support for > multiple signature files in scope (Backpack). > > == Closed tickets == > > #10222, #10219, #8057, #10226, #10220, #9723, #10230, #10208, #10236, > #10213, #10231, #10240, #10243, #10237, #10224, #8811, #10197, #10252, > #9958, #10253, #8248, #10207, #10214, #9964, #10194, #10251, #10188, > #10257, #10247, #10247, #9160, #10259, #9965, #10265, #10264, #10286, > #10282, #10290, #10291, #10300, #9929, #8276, #10218, #10148, #10232, > #10274, #10275, #10195, and #10233. > > -- > Regards, > > Austin Seipp, Haskell Consultant > Well-Typed LLP, http://www.well-typed.com/ > _______________________________________________ > ghc-devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs _______________________________________________ ghc-devs mailing list [email protected] http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs
