Haskell SIG

Mission

The mission of the Haskell Special Interest Group is to maintain, grow, and guide the packaging of Haskell projects in Fedora.

Communication

Mailing list

We have a mailing-list haskell-devel (archives).

IRC

We have an IRC channel #fedora-haskell on Freenode.

Haskell Platform support

Haskell Platform in Fedora status:

• Next release:
  • F17 is planning to ship ghc-7.4

• Current releases:
  • F16 has haskell-platform-2011.2.0.1 with ghc-7.0.4
  • F15 has haskell-platform-2011.2.0.0 with ghc-7.0.2

• EPEL
  • EPEL6 has haskell-platform-2010.2.0.0 with ghc-6.12.3
  • EPEL5 has ghc-6.10.4
  • EPEL4 has ghc-6.8.3

• Former releases
  • F14 had haskell-platform-2010.2.0.0 with ghc-6.12.3
  • F13 had haskell-platform-2010.1.0.0 with ghc-6.12.1
  • F12 had haskell-platform-2009.2.0.2 with ghc-6.10.4
  • F11 had haskell-platform-2009.2.0.1 with ghc-6.10.3

See also the current Haskell Platform release schedule.

Tasks

• Features/GHC74 for F17 (by January)
• submit updated PackagingDrafts/Haskell to FPC
  • Update packaging guidelines for Haskell to the latest cabal2spec in cabal2spec-0.24.1
• Haskell_Spin submit to Spins SIG
• docsbeat
• new mailing-list for discussion separate to bugzilla mails
• move cabal2spec package to haskell branch
• Add %check sections for packages that have tests available
• cabal/yum integration (cabal-autopkg)
  • autogeneration of packages for a "testing" repository of all-of-hackage. Pull from this (with a human eye) to make Fedora packages.
• A tool to check for dependency breakage for version updates in repo: cblrepo exists
• A tool to do automatic rebuild. Try to do it in koji or mock-build with a shell script or haskell script.
• Always updated package dependency graph.
  • Need to have continuous build integration, eg automate dependency builds. Check reverse [1].
  • Koji supports maven now. It could have support for cabal as well.

Packaging

New Package Process

• Please use the latest cabal2spec package when submitting a package review request.
  • The current Haskell Packaging Guidelines have been revised PackagingDrafts/Haskell.
  • cabal2spec generates .spec files from cabal packages using up to date templates.
• You can use cabal2spec-diff when reviewing packages to check differences from the templates.
• Please include haskell-sig in the InitialCC field of Package_SCM_admin_requests.
• Remember to add new packages to Upstream_release_monitoring (Note that packages in haskell-platform are intentionally not listed to avoid accidental breakage.)

Package reviews

Buglists for fedora-haskell-list:

• New Ready reviews (all Ready reviews)
• Other pending or new reviews (not containing "Ready" in Whiteboard]

• NotReady reviews
• Haskell-pkg-reviews dependency tree
• "ghc" or "haskell" reviews not CC haskell-sig

• All open fedora-haskell-list package reviews
• Closed fedora-haskell-list package reviews

Bugs

Non-review bugs, which can be split into:

• Upstream Release Monitoring bugs (URM)
• other misc bugs

All open Haskell bugs

See also the package review links in the Packaging section.

Current packages in Fedora

Haskell SIG packages in pkgdb

See package interdependencies for dependency graphs.

Info on singleton libraries.

SIG Members

Package owners:

• JensPetersen (sponsor)
• Lakshmi Narasimhan T V
• Ben Boeckel
• Shakthi Kannan
• BryanSullivan
• ConradMeyer
• zoglesby
• JeremyHinegardner

Interested:

• GerardMilmeister
• TomMoertel
• Michel Salim (sponsor)
• RichardJones
• PeterLemenkov
• MilesSabin
• RajeshKrishnan
• Aidan Delaney
• Gautam Akiwate

Former contributors:

• YaakovNemoy

History

• 2011-06-01: Fedora 15 ships with ghc-7.0.2
• 2010-12-05: Fedora packages now listed on http://hackage.haskell.org
• 2010-05-25: Fedora 13 ships with ghc-6.12.1 and shared ghc libraries
• 2010-01-10: fedora-haskell-list becomes haskell-devel list at fedoraproject
• 2009-09-29: haskell-platform added for f12
• 2009-04-15: revised Packaging Guidelines accepted
• 2008-09-17: initial Packaging Guidelines approved
• 2008-02-13: fedora-haskell-list started
• 2007-05-10: Fedora SIG formed
• 2005-02-21: fedora-haskell@haskell.org mailing-list starts
• 2004-08-03: original Fedora Haskell project starts