2022-10-17.md

SWG 2022-10-17

Meeting URL: https://meet.jit.si/StableHaskellMeetBiWeekly

Previous meeting notes

Agenda

• New items
  • Creating and maintaining a set of hlint rules to promote stability.
• Updates on in-progress work
  • GHC API
  • Update on Language/compiler features to help stability
  • GHC warning policy document as discussed previously
  • GHC.X.Hackage second draft

Notes of meeting

• Creating and maintaining a set of hlint rules to promote stability.
  • Can/should we?
  • Allows us to catch changes earlier
  • Applies to more than -Wcompat
  • Does not require changes on libraries in any way.
  • Can be iterated very quickly
  • Not limited to deprecations, can be something like best practices
    • Though we might end up with long bikeshedding discussions
    • We do not want to do this though, keep ours to just breaking changes.
  • Related idea:
    • Bulletin of changes - what has happened and why?
    • Monthly/quarerly/as-needed big changes that are distrubuted.
  • How do we know what packages to include?
    • Add/remove per community feedback, start with judgement calls
    • If we miss then situation is exactly as today
  • open PR with initial rules
    • Holding the token: Trevis
• GHC API
  • Still need to assemble group (see prior minutes)
    • Holding the token: David
  • Idea: Module hierarchy could help, a single GHC module is too monolithic to serve as a reasonable interface
  • No progress
• Update on Language/compiler features to help stability
  • Next step is to ask for in-kind donation from sponsor who wants to implement "Deprecating exports"
    • Holding the token: David
• GHC warning policy document as discussed previously
  • No progress yet
  • Holding the token: Chris
• GHC.X.Hackage second draft
  • Make next hackage and look at adoption.
  • Hazard is in communications.
    • First bulletin could be announcing this?
  • Submit or close proposal
    • Submission for vote we think would be welcomed
    • Holding the token for a comment: David
• Bulletin
  • Keep in SWG repo
  • "Haskell Changelog"
  • Holding the token: Chris