[GHC DevOps Group] FreeBSD in Tier 1

[Manuel M T Chakravarty]

[RESENT MESSAGE — see https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/ghc-devops-group/2017-October/000004.html]


According to 

  https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/TeamGHC <https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/TeamGHC>

it is Páli Gábor János aka pgj whose last commit was 20 Jul 2016:

  https://github.com/ghc/ghc/commit/0df3f4cdd1dfff42461e3f5c3962f1ecd7c90652 <https://github.com/ghc/ghc/commit/0df3f4cdd1dfff42461e3f5c3962f1ecd7c90652>

Manuel

> Am 09.10.2017 um 19:02 schrieb Simon Marlow <marlowsd at gmail.com <mailto:marlowsd at gmail.com>>:
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> The usual requirement for a platform to be in Tier 1 is that there's an active maintainer to fix issues as they arise. Do we have a maintainer for the FreeBSD port?
> 
> On 9 October 2017 at 06:38, Manuel M T Chakravarty <manuel.chakravarty at tweag.io <mailto:manuel.chakravarty at tweag.io>> wrote:
> Mathieu sunk quite a bit of time over the weekend into building GHC on FreeBSD and found that it doesn’t build and hasn’t been building for a while. Specifically, there is
> 
>   https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/14064 <https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/14064>
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> and
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>   https://github.com/haskell/unix/issues/102 <https://github.com/haskell/unix/issues/102>
> 
> Also, due to
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>   https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/12695 <https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/12695>
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> FreeBSD builds need to be configured specially.
> 
> This leads to my question:
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>   ** Why is FreeBSD in Tier 1? **
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> (See https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Platforms <https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Platforms>)
> 
> It seems that nobody is sufficiently interested in FreeBSD to fix these issues. I don’t think it is fair to hold up releases of true Tier 1 platforms only because FreeBSD issues haven’t been fixed. Moreover, as we discussed on a separate thread, FreeBSD introduces additional constraints/work in the CI setup.
> 
> I’d like to propose to move FreeBSD to Tier 2. Is there any good reason not to?
> 
> Cheers,
> Manuel
> 
> PS: If anybody is using GHC on FreeBSD in a mission-critical way, that would be a good reason, but then I would expect that party to commit some resources to help us out.
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