<div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Leveraging the blockchain to compile GHC is a great idea!</span><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Unfortunately the proof-of-work algorithm is still just wasted cycles.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Sun, 1 Apr 2018, 07:28 , <<a href="mailto:amindfv@gmail.com">amindfv@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Overall this is a great proposal; glad we're finally modernizing! Still, it's got a pretty steep price tag - maybe we can offset costs with an I.C.O.? ("GHC Coin"?)<br>
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> El 1 abr 2018, a las 00:56, Gershom B <<a href="mailto:gershomb@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">gershomb@gmail.com</a>> escribió:<br>
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> Fellow Haskellers,<br>
><br>
> Recently there has been much work into creating a better and more<br>
> professional GHC development process, including in the form of DevOps<br>
> infrastructure, scheduled releases and governance, etc. But much<br>
> remains to be done. There continues to be concern about the lack of<br>
> use of industry-standard tools. For example, GHC development is tied<br>
> to Phabricator, which is a custom product originally developed for<br>
> in-house use by an obscure startup. GHC development is documented on a<br>
> wiki still -- ancient technology, not appropriate for 2018. Wiki<br>
> syntax for documentation needs to be replaced by the only modern<br>
> standard -- github flavored markdown. Trac itself is ancient<br>
> technology, dating to 2003, well before anybody knew how to program<br>
> real software. It provides no support for all the most important<br>
> aspects of software development -- Kanban boards, sprint management,<br>
> or even burndown charts.<br>
><br>
> What is necessary is an integrated solution that holistically<br>
> addresses all aspects of development, fostering a DevOps culture,<br>
> embracing cloud-first, agile-first, test-first, disrupt-first<br>
> principles, and with an<br>
> ironclad SLA. Rather than homegrown solutions, we need a GHC<br>
> development process that utilizes tools and procedures already<br>
> familiar to regular developers. Cross-sectional feature comparison<br>
> analysis yields a clear front-runner -- Visual Studio Team Services.<br>
><br>
> VSTS is a recognized Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for<br>
> Enterprise Agile Planning tools. It lets us migrate from custom git<br>
> hosting to a more reliable source control system -- Team Foundation<br>
> Version Control. By enforcing the locking of checked-out files, we can<br>
> prevent the sorts of overlap between different patches that occur in<br>
> the current distributed version management system, and coordinate<br>
> tightly between developers, enabling and fostering T-shaped skills.<br>
> Team Build also lets us migrate from antiquated makefiles to modern,<br>
> industry-standard technology -- XML descriptions of build processes<br>
> that integrate automatically with tracking of PBIs (product backlog<br>
> items), and one-button release management.<br>
><br>
> In terms of documentation, rather than deal with the subtleties of<br>
> different markdown implementations and the confusing world of<br>
> restructured text, we can utilize the full power of Word, including<br>
> SharePoint integration as well as Office 365 capabilities, and integration<br>
> with Microsoft Teams, the chat-based workspace for collaboration. This<br>
> enables much more effective cross-team collaboration with product and<br>
> marketing divisions.<br>
><br>
> One of the most exciting features of VSTS is powerful extensibility,<br>
> with APIs offered in both major programming paradigms in use today --<br>
> JVM and .NET. The core organizational principle for full application<br>
> lifecycle management is a single data construct -- the "work item"<br>
> which documentation informs us "represents a thing," which can be<br>
> anything that "a user can imagine." The power of work items comes<br>
> through their extensible XML representation. Work items are combined<br>
> into a Process Template, with such powerful Process Templates<br>
> available as Agile, Scrum, and CMMI. VSTS will also allow us to<br>
> analyze GHC Developer team performance with an integrated reporting<br>
> data warehouse that uses a cube.<br>
><br>
> Pricing for up to 100 users is $750 a month. Individual developers can<br>
> also purchase subscriptions to Visual Studio Professional for $45 a<br>
> month. I suggest we start directing resources towards a transition. I<br>
> imagine all work to accomplish this could be done within a year, and<br>
> by next April 1, the GHC development process will be almost<br>
> unrecognizable from that today.<br>
><br>
> Regards,<br>
> Gershom<br>
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