GHC proposals not rendering

Simon Peyton Jones simon.peytonjones at gmail.com
Fri Jan 19 15:07:29 UTC 2024


Maybe there's a config parameter that can be changed?  It's extremely
annoying, and a definite regression.  Is there anyone at Github we can ask?

Simon

On Fri, 19 Jan 2024 at 12:16, Bryan Richter <bryan at haskell.foundation>
wrote:

> I'm guessing GitHub had to limit the size of .rst files that get rendered.
> I can imagine the kinds of annoying security or abuse issues they might be
> working around...
>
> The smallest file that doesn't work that I found by clicking around:
> https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/blob/master/proposals/0380-ghc2021.rst
> (42KB)
>
> The largest that does still work:
> https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/blob/master/proposals/0581-namespace-specified-imports.rst
> (25KB)
>
> On Fri, 12 Jan 2024 at 14:49, Simon Peyton Jones <
> simon.peytonjones at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> But it used to work fine. What has changed?  It seems like a pretty
>> serious bug!
>>
>> On Thu, 11 Jan 2024 at 15:38, Rodrigo Mesquita <
>> rodrigo.m.mesquita at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> FWIW, I’m able to render/preview successfully other proposals, but
>>> 448-type-variable-scoping loads very slowly and ultimately fails to render
>>> for me too.
>>>
>>> A comment in https://github.com/github/markup/issues/1016 (issue
>>> related to .rst not rendering) says that forcing a change in the file
>>> triggered a re-render successfully.
>>>
>>> Rodrigo
>>>
>>>
>>> On 11 Jan 2024, at 15:28, Simon Peyton Jones <
>>> simon.peytonjones at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> If you go to https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/pull/448,
>>> and click on the "rendered" link, namely
>>> https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/blob/master/proposals/0448-type-variable-scoping.rst,
>>> Github is now displaying the .rst source, not the rendered proposal.
>>>
>>> This has started happening (consistently across other proposals) today.
>>>
>>> Does anyone know why?  How can I fix this?
>>>
>>> Simon
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