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SWG 2024-09-16

Previous meeting notes

Attendees

Minor edits and encourage discussion on extension classificaiton proposal.
- Bring up at ghc weekly
  - Holding the token: José
SWG post for blog.haskell.org
- Holding the token: Trevis
Draft tooling recommendation
- Holding the token: Trevis

NixPkgs
- https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/issues/24518#note_582961
- Is it the case that GHC HQ are not going to update 9.8 at all? Instead encouraging people to jump to 9.10, and skip 9.8 altogether.
- https://www.haskell.org/ghc/blog/20240521-ghc-release-priorities.html says 9.8 will be supported
- Would that be OK? GHC blog post said 9.8 would continue to be supported; but Simon's talk at HS'2024 said not. Let's ask, and cause a post to appear to clarify. Action Jose
Tom Ellis's blog posts:
- http://h2.jaguarpaw.co.uk/posts/ghc-8.10-9.6-experience-report/
- https://h2.jaguarpaw.co.uk/posts/behaviour-changes-flag-day/
- Invite Simon Marlow to do the same -- Meta has done a similar upgrade cycle recently.
Still want to better find what are the issues, how can we find them?
Ben's summary of why it's hard to to get reinstallable base: https://edit.smart-cactus.org/h2z2ELauQs2vzhPDeUDr_g#

JMCT: What would a GitHub mirror that posts to GHC GitLab look like?
Simon's list of GHC-related stability issues
Jappie: catagorizing head.hackage https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xNAn7qE1X7waI7lAIh9lOUKGuEb9HnRwGWNicaywASk/edit?gid=251085624#gid=251085624