| | 7 | In particular, |
| | 8 | |
| | 9 | |
| | 10 | More generally, could the current status of the platform please |
| | 11 | be made *obvious early* on its webpages? Currently, a visit |
| | 12 | looking for such info might go like this: |
| | 13 | |
| | 14 | 1. http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/ |
| | 15 | doesn't say anything about versions or timelines |
| | 16 | |
| | 17 | 2. http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/contents.html |
| | 18 | gives GHC versions, without linking them to HP versions |
| | 19 | or timelines |
| | 20 | |
| | 21 | 3. http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/windows.html |
| | 22 | lists current version and timeline of older versions (good), |
| | 23 | but does not state that the current version is a beta, nor |
| | 24 | does it indicate that there is a stable version due, or what |
| | 25 | problems are keeping the beta from becoming stable |
| | 26 | |
| | 27 | 4. http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Haskell_Platform |
| | 28 | does not offer much info, but seems to be the only page |
| | 29 | linking to |
| | 30 | |
| | 31 | 5. http://trac.haskell.org/haskell-platform/ |
| | 32 | no current version info, release time table is only for package |
| | 33 | maintainers, none of the "open bug reports" has a 2010.x |
| | 34 | milestone |
| | 35 | |
| | 36 | 6. http://trac.haskell.org/haskell-platform/wiki/ReleaseTimetable |
| | 37 | THERE!-) This is the information I was looking for, at least part |
| | 38 | of it! But where is the rest? |
| | 39 | |
| | 40 | |
| | 41 | I suggest the following changes as a minimum improvement: |
| | 42 | |
| | 43 | - link to 6 directly from 1 (even better: insert cute calendar with |
| | 44 | highlighted release timelines on 1!-) |
| | 45 | - add current version overview for each OS to 1 (in case the |
| | 46 | per-OS versions are out of sync) |
| | 47 | |
| | 48 | - add trac links to 6 that list the showstopper tickets for |
| | 49 | the current release (this assumes that the showstoppers |
| | 50 | have trac tickets and, preferably, milestone and severity |
| | 51 | information) |
| | 52 | |
| | 53 | - add info about next release and blocking issues to 3 (and to |
| | 54 | the other OS-specific pages) - downloaders should not have |
| | 55 | to guess that the current version is a beta, or what problems |
| | 56 | have been found with it |
