Re: How Can I Help?
Hi Boyd,
Thank you for your letter.
I'm not a DD, just as you, and I have found that, while I'm extremely
grateful to DDs for their job, it's too much to also expect DDs
to be prompt and particularly responsive. My advice to you
would be to switch to ghcup and cabal (or stack) and take care
of all your needs yourself, because apparently you are able to.
If you'd like to contribute to Debian Haskell for the sake
of people that can't operate cabal, I'm afraid it's best to get
through the DD process and commit to DD duties.
Oh, and there's a lot of useful contribution you can do to Haskell
upstream as a hobbyist. E.g., to the cabal package that I maintain.
The advantage is that you don't need to commit to DDs duties,
but can work on and off, as you please.
Hope this helps,
Mikolaj
On Sat, Mar 19, 2022 at 4:19 AM Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
<bss@iguanasuicide.net> wrote:
>
> I'm not a DD or anything, but I am interested in making sure we continue to
> have good Haskell package and tools in Debian, because I install several of
> them that way.
>
> Is there a status page where I can find tasks? Or can someone propose some?
>
> I've been on Debian for my personal systems since 2007, and been using Haskell
> as a hobbyist since 2010, so I think I know some basic stuff, but I'm also
> quite willing to learn if that's what I need to do before I can lighten the
> load.
>
> My motivation is that I want to install stylish-haskell 0.14.0.1 without
> breaking my XMonad, but I don't expect to be able to work on that directly
> until we can get a newer GHC in Sid. :)
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