2024-03-18.md

SWG 2024-03-18

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

Previous meeting notes

Agenda & Notes

New items to discuss

• ghc-pkg, Cabal, stack, and plugins

  • Could we separate out the bits of cabal ghc needs to a separate package?
    • In theory it could happen
  • Need a cabal release.
    • Don't know what is involved there.
    • Cabal release is "slowly moving forward".
  • Conclusion: fix this issue and hope we don't hit it again.
  • Idea: Get more cross team involvement: Various parties invited to the Thursday Cabal sync

• Gracefully handling package abandonment

  • A member of the community reached out for us to discuss this.
  • Botan bindings as an example:
    • Community groups with multiple maintainers

Short-Term Action Items From Previous

• None

In progress projects

Updates

• Extension lifecycle framework proposal #601

  • Under renovation to serve as basis for Renovating GHC's extensions mechanism #628 and Articulate stability goals #625
  • Pretty short: Experimental, Stable, Discouraged, Deprecated.
  • Relates to Adam's classification proposal #635

• Simon's list of GHC-related stability issues

• Three-release policy

• Bulletin discussed previously

  • Previously holding the token: Chris

• GHC warning policy document as discussed previously

  • Previously holding the token: Chris

Parked Action Items/Projects due to expected absence of token holder

New for next week

Action items

Discussion items