<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi everyone</div><div><br></div><div>You will find below the minutes of the Cabal meeting that was held on the 03/08/2023.</div><div>This
meeting occurs every two weeks and is absolutely open to developers,
newcomers and stakeholders. Do contact the dev team if you want an
invitation to the event.</div><div><br></div><div>---</div><div><br>## 3.10.2.0 patch release<br><br>Hécate: The pipeline situation seems to have been fixed, as such Mikołaj & I are able to run GitLab pipelines for cabal. I suggest that once the following PRs are merged, the release process (including security fixes) resume. I'd ideally like it to be done by next week.<br><br>* <a href="https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/9088">https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/9088</a><br><br>## 3.12.1.0 major release<br><br>Hécate: In accordance with the planned schedule of GHC 9.8, we would like to perform<br>a major release at the end of August. This would be a good idea to highly promote <br>cabal-head nightlies and make sure that the 3.12.1.0 release is already used by people<br>in all but name before we formally create the tag and publish the binaries.<br><br>(f-a et al.): Things we should warn users about:<br>- `cabal check`: cabal now warns about missing upper bounds. I have a PR ready to address<br> this (ignore some checks) but #8427 needs to be merged first.<br><br>## Other topics<br><br>### Yvan<br><br>* I have a working `flake.nix` and `shell.nix` that declare my dev environment to work on Cabal, do you think I should share it in a PR?<br>* I was about to write a detailed issue where I explain why <a href="https://cabal.readthedocs.io/en/latest/nix-integration.html">https://cabal.readthedocs.io/en/latest/nix-integration.html</a> doesn't work at all (or it's very poorly documented and I don't understand how to properly use it). Instead of fixing it, I'm in favor of removing it because I think it's overall not a good idea to have this kind of integration.<br> * Hécate: Action Item: We should take the pulse of the community for a couple of releases. We should point to <a href="https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Haskell">https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Haskell</a> for transition.<br>* If time permits, I also wanted to have feedback on my currently open PRs <a href="https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pulls/yvan-sraka">https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pulls/yvan-sraka</a>.<br><br></div></div>