<html><body><div>We too have been waiting a long time for a refreshed release of HSE. If Matthew has already made the edits, and we are simply awaiting the package's release to Hackage, perhaps Matthew should go ahead make that release himself, and petition the Hackage admins to accept it, in view of the official maintainers' long silence?</div><div class="x-apple-signature"><pre style="font-family: 'SFNSText','Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'SFNSText','Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">Regards,
Malcolm</pre></div><div><br>On 12 Nov, 2015,at 05:37 PM, Matthew Pickering <matthewtpickering@gmail.com> wrote:<br><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div class="msg-quote"><div class="_stretch"><span class="body-text-content">Peter,<br><br>Please can you do the release. I completed the work updating HSE<br>several months ago, a much better version of HSE has been waiting on<br>the master branch since then. I thank you for providing helpful review<br>for the patches I submitted but since then I have sent three emails<br>asking about the release. After the second you promised to do a<br>release at the end of October but that never happened.<br><br>It is a shame that the user's of HSE have had to live with many long<br>standing bugs when they have been fixed for months.<br><br>If you can not do it for whatever reason then please can you add me as<br>a maintainer on hackage and the github repo so that users can get an<br>updated version of HSE.<br><br>Best wishes,<br><br>Matt<br><br><br><br>On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 11:35 PM, Peter A Jonsson<br><jonsson.peter.a@gmail.com> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text">I’m not even going to bother to CC haskell-cafe since that will just bounce or go into a black hole.</blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text">I exchanged a couple of mails with David (Lemmih) and my impression was that he was going to act upon some things but I didn’t follow up on that so there was probably some miscommunication between the two of us.</blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text">I’ve merged some things and reviewed some patches. I agree with Neil that stable things should be merged and the yearly release of HSE should be made. I don’t want to rush things out through the door at any cost though—I believe HSE’s users are better served by something that is a strict improvement and contains more features than the last release compared to something that has even more features but is a bit shaky and requires a new major version of HSE in just a month or two which would force the client code to be re-tested and re-released.</blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text">Best Wishes,</blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text">Peter</blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text"><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text">On 28 Jul 2015, at 17:49, Neil Mitchell <ndmitchell@gmail.com> wrote:</blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text"><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text"><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text">As a very heavy HSE user (HLint and Hoogle), who has had a reasonably</blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text"><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text">close working relationship with all of Niklas (my SoC mentor and my</blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text"><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text">SoC mentee), Roman and Peter (a fellow supercompiler developer) and</blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text"><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text">Matt (currently hacking on HLint), I thought I should weigh in.</blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text"><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text"><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text">The current state of HSE is a little forlorn - there are 22 open pull</blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text"><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text">requests, everything from reducing algorithm complexity (an accidental</blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text"><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text">n^3), fixing the default encoding (should be UTF8) and lots of actual</blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text"><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text">parser fixes. A lot of this is good stuff, and the high level of</blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text"><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text">external contributions is a really good sign. But they need to be</blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text"><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text">merged and reviewed, and it seems the bandwidth just isn't there at</blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text"><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text">the moment. Given Matt's comments on the existing tickets, and the</blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text"><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text">triage he's already performing on the repo, I have high hopes that</blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text"><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text">Matt could provide a bit more of the time and attention. Peter,</blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text"><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text">perhaps a co-maintainer would be good for a little while?</blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text"><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text"><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text"><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text">If it's not soon then please could you add myself and Christian to the</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text"><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text"><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text">maintainers so that we can perform some short term maintenance. My</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text"><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text"><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text">immediate plan of action would be</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text"><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text"><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text"><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text"><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text"><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text">1. Immediately cut a 1.17 release from the master branch as it</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text"><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text"><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text">contains much better parsing of lifted constructors which are becoming</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text"><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text"><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text">more prevalent.</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text"><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text"><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text">2. Review and merge recent pull requests.</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text"><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text"><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text">3. Update the parser as far as possible with missing features.</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text"><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text"><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text">4. Release 1.18 with these improvements within 1 month.</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text"><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text"><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text">Awesome! Although as a preference I'd go for as much of 2 as you can</blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text"><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text">in a couple of days before doing 1 - a lot of the patches are simple</blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text"><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text">and valuable, and a 2 day wait isn't going to be too problematic.</blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text"><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text"><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text">Thanks, Neil</blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text"><br></blockquote>_______________________________________________<br>Haskell-Cafe mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org" data-mce-href="mailto:Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org">Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org</a><br><a href="http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe" data-mce-href="http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe">http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe</a><br></span></div></div></blockquote></div></body></html>