Moving Haddock *development* out of GHC tree

[Simon Peyton Jones]

Great. Please can what you do be documented clearly somewhere, with a link to that documentation from here https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Repositories, and/or somewhere else suitable?

Thanks

Simon

| -----Original Message-----
| From: ghc-devs [mailto:ghc-devs-bounces at haskell.org] On Behalf Of
| Mateusz Kowalczyk
| Sent: 13 August 2014 23:10
| To: ghc-devs at haskell.org
| Subject: Re: Moving Haddock *development* out of GHC tree
| 
| On 08/08/2014 06:25 AM, Mateusz Kowalczyk wrote:
| > Hello,
| >
| > [snip]
| >
| > Transition from current setup:
| > If I receive some patches I was promised then I will then make a
| > 2.14.4 bugfix/compat release make sure that master is up to date and
| > then create something like GHC-tracking branch from master and track
| > that. I will then abandon that branch and not push to it unless it is
| > GHC release time. The next commit in master will bring Haddock to a
| > state where it works with 7.8.3: yes, this means removing all new API
| > stuff until 7.10 or 7.8.4 or whatever. GHC API changes go onto
| > GHC-tracking while all the stuff I write goes master. When GHC makes
| a
| > release or is about to, I make master work with that and make
| > GHC-tracking point to that instead.
| >
| >
| > Thanks!
| >
| 
| So it is now close to a week gone and I have received many positive
| replies and no negative ones. I will probably execute what I stated
| initially at about this time tomorrow.
| 
| To reiterate in short:
| 
| 1. I make sure what we have now compiles with GHC HEAD and I stick it
| in separate branch which GHC folk will now track and apply any API
| patches to. Unless something changes by tomorrow, this will most likely
| be what master is at right now, perhaps with a single change to the
| version in cabal file.
| 
| 2. I make the master branch work with 7.8.3 (and possibly 7.8.x) and do
| development without worrying about any API changes in HEAD, releasing
| as often as I need to.
| 
| 3. At GHC release time, I update master with API changes so that up-to-
| date Haddock is ready to be used to generate the docs and ship with the
| compiler.
| 
| I don't know what the GHC branch name will be yet. 'ghc-head' makes
| most sense but IIRC Herbert had some objections as it had been used in
| the past for something else, but maybe he can pitch in.
| 
| The only thing I require from GHC folk is to simply use that branch and
| not push/pull to/from master unless contributing feature patches or
| trying to port some fixes into HEAD version for whatever reason.
| 
| Thanks!
| 
| --
| Mateusz K.
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