Website for viewing proposals

[Joachim Breitner]

Hi,

I looked into getting doi’s for our accepted proposals, but it looked
harder than it should be.

Building a nice web page from our repository and publishing it on
GitHub pages, which can serve a custom domain like
ghc-proposals.haskell.org would not be hard. Matthew even started a
Makefile at some point that produces a reasonably nice output using
sphinx.

Maybe only reason why I am hesitant to do so is that there is a feature
creep risk:
We start with a webpage that shows accepted proposals,
soon we’ll add functionality to list pending proposals and their status
(why not? They are just a GitHub API call away),
then we start using this page to actually drive the proposals (surely
we can use this to tally the votes),
and then we end up with a system that no longer has the “you just need
to know GitHub to use it” property that made us build a Github-centric
process in the first place.

But maybe I am paranoid, and I should just set up the CI infrastructure
for Matthew’s sphinx build.

BTW, in hindsight, I regret that we renumber proposals after
acceptance. It would be easier if they just retained the number of the
PR (other proposal processes out there do that). But that ship has
sailed.

Cheers,
Joachim

Am Donnerstag, den 09.05.2019, 10:45 +0100 schrieb Matthew Pickering:
> I want to cite a GHC proposal but linking to github for it doesn't
> seem very official or permanent.
> 
> Last year you also cited a proposal for your Haskell symposium paper
> (https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.03476) but instead linked to the pull
> request which also doesn't seem ideal to me.
> 
> Matt
> 
> On Thu, May 9, 2019 at 10:11 AM Simon Peyton Jones
> <simonpj at microsoft.com> wrote:
> > Interesting.  How would it differ from what we have (i.e. github's RST viewer)?
> > 
> > >  -----Original Message-----
> > >  From: ghc-devs <ghc-devs-bounces at haskell.org> On Behalf Of Matthew
> > >  Pickering
> > >  Sent: 09 May 2019 09:40
> > >  To: GHC developers <ghc-devs at haskell.org>
> > >  Subject: Website for viewing proposals
> > > 
> > >  Hi,
> > > 
> > >  It would be useful if there was a canonical way to link and view GHC
> > >  proposals rather than relying on github's RST viewer.
> > > 
> > >  Can we set up a website, `ghc.haskell.org/proposals`, which is deployed to
> > >  automatically when a new accepted proposal is merged?
> > > 
> > >  FWIW, if the proposals process was also on gitlab then doing this
> > >  deployment would be easy using our CI infrastructure but I don't know how
> > >  to set up something similar on github.
> > > 
> > >  Cheers,
> > > 
> > >  Matt
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