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), since Feb 2008.

IRC

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

Haskell Platform support

Haskell Platform in Fedora status:

• Next release:
  • F16 plans to ship haskell-platform-2011.2.0.x with ghc-7.0.4

• Current releases:
  • F15 has haskell-platform-2011.2.0.0 with ghc-7.0.2
  • F14 has haskell-platform-2010.2.0.0 with ghc-6.12.3
  • F13 has haskell-platform-2010.1.0.0 with ghc-6.12.1

• 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
  • F12 had haskell-platform-2009.2.0.2 (ghc-6.10.4)
  • F11 had haskell-platform-2009.2.0.1 (ghc-6.10.3)

Tasks

• Features/GHC703 for F16
• update PackagingDrafts/Haskell to latest macros/packaging [done: posted RFC]
• move ghc_archs to rpm?
• 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.
• Haskell_Spin submitted to Spins SIG
• A tool to check for dependency breakage for version updates in repo
• A tool to do automatic rebuild - assigned to User:Narasim. 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.

Long running tasks

Add new packages added to the repo to [2]. Please note that packages in haskell-platform are not listed intentionally to avoid confusion.

Packaging

Please use the latest cabal2spec package from koji when submitting packages.

The current Haskell Packaging Guidelines need updating to ghc-6.12. cabal2spec generates .spec files from cabal packages using up to date templates. After a package has been accepted please remember to include haskell-sig in the package SCM admin request.

Package reviews

You can use cabal2spec-diff when reviewing packages to check differences from the templates.

Package reviews tracker

Open Package reviews (CC fedora-haskell-list)

Closed Package reviews (CC fedora-haskell-list)

Package Wishlist

• gitit
• webkit, poppler, gstreamer
• hakyll
• happstack
• snap

Bugs

Open Haskell bugs

Current packages in Fedora

Haskell SIG packages in pkgdb

See package interdependencies for dependency graphs.

SIG Members

Packager owners:

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

Interested:

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

Former:

• 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