Forwarding, since this did not make it into the archive when the mailing list was having trouble.
----- Forwarded message from Claus Reinke <claus.rei...@talk21.com> ----- Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 16:14:12 +0200 From: Claus Reinke <claus.rei...@talk21.com> To: haskell-platf...@community.haskell.org Subject: Status of Haskell Platform? Hi, I assume that there are good reasons why the current release is stalled (GHC update, Cabal update?, ..), but such reasons are not easily visible on the platform web pages. Nor can I see any message traffic on this list that would discuss or explain the issues related to this delay (since "early April"). >From what I heard, I should wait for GHC 6.12.3. Anything else? More generally, could the current status of the platform please be made *obvious early* on its webpages? Currently, a visit looking for such info might go like this: 1. http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/ doesn't say anything about versions or timelines 2. http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/contents.html gives GHC versions, without linking them to HP versions or timelines 3. http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/windows.html lists current version and timeline of older versions (good), but does not state that the current version is a beta, nor does it indicate that there is a stable version due, or what problems are keeping the beta from becoming stable 4. http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Haskell_Platform does not offer much info, but seems to be the only page linking to 5. http://trac.haskell.org/haskell-platform/ no current version info, release time table is only for package maintainers, none of the "open bug reports" has a 2010.x milestone 6. http://trac.haskell.org/haskell-platform/wiki/ReleaseTimetable THERE!-) This is the information I was looking for, at least part of it! But where is the rest? I suggest the following changes as a minimum improvement: - link to 6 directly from 1 (even better: insert cute calendar with highlighted release timelines on 1!-) - add current version overview for each OS to 1 (in case the per-OS versions are out of sync) - add trac links to 6 that list the showstopper tickets for the current release (this assumes that the showstoppers have trac tickets and, preferably, milestone and severity information) - add info about next release and blocking issues to 3 (and to the other OS-specific pages) - downloaders should not have to guess that the current version is a beta, or what problems have been found with it Claus _______________________________________________ Haskell-platform mailing list Haskell-platform@projects.haskell.org http://projects.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-platform ----- End forwarded message ----- _______________________________________________ Haskell-platform mailing list Haskell-platform@projects.haskell.org http://projects.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-platform
