<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">May I politely indicate a problem with messages like the one below.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I am interested in Haskell in general and that is why I read Haskell-cafe; to keep an eye on new developments and what is going on.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Unfortunately too often I see messages announcing (new versions) of packages, of which I have no idea what the package actually does (for a package named “network" I probably can guess). May I ask everyone to include at least one sentence of description in such announcements e.g. for the package below:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> Description</div><div class="">==============</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Brittany is a Haskell source code formatter based on <span style="caret-color: rgb(36, 41, 46); color: rgb(36, 41, 46); font-family: SFMono-Regular, Consolas, "Liberation Mono", Menlo, monospace; font-size: 13.600000381469727px; background-color: rgba(27, 31, 35, 0.0470588);" class="">ghc-exactprint.</span></div><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(36, 41, 46); color: rgb(36, 41, 46); font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji"; font-size: 16px;" class="">You can</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(36, 41, 46); color: rgb(36, 41, 46); font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji"; font-size: 16px;" class=""> </span><a href="https://hexagoxel.de/brittany/" rel="nofollow" style="caret-color: rgb(36, 41, 46); font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji"; font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(3, 102, 214); text-decoration: none;" class="">paste haskell code over here</a><span style="caret-color: rgb(36, 41, 46); color: rgb(36, 41, 46); font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji"; font-size: 16px;" class=""> to test how it gets formatted by brittany.</span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I find it annoying that I have to go to e.g. hackage just to see whether the message/package is interesting to me,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> Thanks in advance and keep the good work going,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> Doaitse Swierstra</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> <br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 19 Jun 2019, at 18:28, Evan Borden <<a href="mailto:evan@evan-borden.com" class="">evan@evan-borden.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Hello,<br class=""><br class="">I am happy to announce the release of brittany version 0.12.0.0. This version<br class="">includes a number of fantastic improvements from many excellent contributors.<br class="">Additionally brittany will soon be added back to stackage. In the meantime it<br class="">can be built with the stack.yaml in its source or with cabal v2-build.<br class=""><br class=""><a href="https://hackage.haskell.org/package/brittany-0.12.0.0" class="">https://hackage.haskell.org/package/brittany-0.12.0.0</a><br class=""><br class="">Contributors<br class="">============<br class=""><br class="">* Benjamin Kovach @5outh<br class="">* Doug Beardsley @mightybyte<br class="">* Evan Borden @eborden<br class="">* Lennart Spitzner @lspitzner<br class="">* Matt Noonan @moatt-noonan<br class="">* Phil Hazelden @ChickenProp<br class="">* Rupert Horlick @ruhatch<br class="">* Sergey Vinokurov @sergv<br class=""><br class="">New Collaborators<br class="">=================<br class=""><br class="">You may be wondering why I am sending this message instead of Lennart. Taylor<br class="">Fausak and I are taking on some of the maintenance for brittany. We will<br class="">hopefully lift some of the burden from Lennart so he can remain the guiding<br class="">light and driving force behind the project.<br class=""><br class="">Changes<br class="">==========<br class=""><br class="">This release includes many bug fixes, additional support for a number of<br class="">syntactic constructs and a few layouting modifications. For full details check<br class="">the change log on github:<br class=""><br class="">https://github.com/lspitzner/brittany/blob/master/ChangeLog.md<br class=""><br class="">Again thank you to brittany's fantastic contributors for helping making this<br class="">release happen.<br class=""><br class="">--<br class=""><br class="">Evan<br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Haskell-Cafe mailing list<br class="">To (un)subscribe, modify options or view archives go to:<br class="">http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe<br class="">Only members subscribed via the mailman list are allowed to post.</div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>