Someone has bombed the package review queue with a bunch of GHC (Haskell) packages. Actually, they're not really actual packages, just spec files and patches that he wants us to assemble. Hopefully we can get that worked out, but the larger issue of Haskell packaging remains.
I recalled that we briefly considered Haskell packaging after the last fudcon, but nothing came of it. Should we block Haskell packages like we blocked Java (and various language packages before it)? Do we have anyone that's still interested in developing Haskell guidelines?
I have essentially no knowledge of Haskell, so it should be obvious that I'm not the best person to do this. However, all of the submissions were generated mechanically so I suspect that at least a portion of them could just be reviewed mechanically. I made a few comments to one of the tickets, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=451413, and hopefully the submissions will get cleaned up into a reviewable state. But we still need to cecide whether or not we want to block them until guidelines are ready.
- J<
I would certainly be willing to review Haskell packages, but I don't know enough to write guidelines (the last time I used GHC was so long ago, you had to download the C intermediate files for the compiler and go through an elaborate bootstrapping procedure). I had a look at the bug you pointed to and as you say the packages aren't in a reviewable state at the moment.
Rich.
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I would certainly be willing to review Haskell packages, but I don't know enough to write guidelines (the last time I used GHC was so long ago, you had to download the C intermediate files for the compiler and go through an elaborate bootstrapping procedure). I had a look at the bug you pointed to and as you say the packages aren't in a reviewable state at the moment.
Thanks for the follow up.
I think this can be discussed on the Fedora Haskell SIG. Yes we still haven't gotten to cleaning up the draft packaging guidelines, but this could help to prod that process along... :)
Jens
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