Website for viewing proposals

Iavor Diatchki iavor.diatchki at gmail.com
Fri May 10 20:33:52 UTC 2019


Having a read-only rendered version of all accepted proposals should
probably be pretty simple---we can even host it in the same repo using
"Github Pages".    I don't know that we need anything more complex
than that.

On Thu, May 9, 2019 at 5:41 AM Joachim Breitner
<mail at joachim-breitner.de> wrote:
>
> 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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