2024-12-09.md

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SWG 2024-12-09

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

Previous meeting notes

Attendees

• Trevis
• SPJ

Agenda & Notes

• Planning for EOY:

  • Next meeting would be scheduled for December 23rd, should we skip? Yes.

• GHC release management document.

• GHC 9.8.4 released!

  • Is it worthwhile for someone to write up some learnings/moving forward as a result of this?
  • Relates to ongoing GHC release management discussions
  • Can we make this "lessons learned" post part of a forward looking post about the new GHC release management doc. "We learned these lessons, and here is how we are putting them into action."
  • Mabye the release-management policy doc should be in this repo: https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc-hq

• Renovate support for cabal renovatebot/renovate#31493

  • Gaining support in more industry settings.
  • How can we promote/expand this sort of adoption?
  • Invite ysangkok to a meeting to talk about what they are doing.
  • Publicisise on Discourse?

Short-Term Action Items From Previous

• Minor edits, discussion on extension classification proposal.

• GHC LTS

  • Previously holding the token: Ben
  • https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/issues/25496

• SWG post for blog.haskell.org

  • In progress!
  • Holding the token: Trevis

New Items to discuss

• https://discourse.haskell.org/t/wiki-haskell-org-is-down/10664

In progress projects

Updates

• Draft tooling recommendation

  • Holding the token: Trevis

• 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

Parked Action Items/Projects

New for next week

Action items

Discussion items