id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,resolution,keywords,cc
131,Public release timetable suitable for users,dons,MtnViewMark,"Claus Reinke has proposed:

> The idea is  simply to have a single dated news item that lists current and next  release versions, either with date or with reasons for delays, and  to add a link to the release timetable for more detailed information (since the platform logo is used elsewhere, it might be good to provide a variant with automatically overlaid version number).

 * http://projects.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-platform/2010-May/000972.html
 
In particular,


More generally, could the current status of the platform please
be made *obvious early* on its webpages? Currently, a visit
looking for such info might go like this:

1.  http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/
    doesn't say anything about versions or timelines

2.  http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/contents.html
    gives GHC versions, without linking them to HP versions
    or timelines

3.  http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/windows.html
    lists current version and timeline of older versions (good),
    but does not state that the current version is a beta, nor
    does it indicate that there is a stable version due, or what
    problems are keeping the beta from becoming stable

4.  http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Haskell_Platform
    does not offer much info, but seems to be the only page
    linking to

5.  http://trac.haskell.org/haskell-platform/
    no current version info, release time table is only for package
    maintainers, none of the ""open bug reports"" has a 2010.x
    milestone

6.  http://trac.haskell.org/haskell-platform/wiki/ReleaseTimetable
    THERE!-) This is the information I was looking for, at least part
    of it! But where is the rest?


I suggest the following changes as a minimum improvement:

- link to 6 directly from 1 (even better: insert cute calendar with
    highlighted release timelines on 1!-)
- add current version overview for each OS to 1 (in case the
    per-OS versions are out of sync)

- add trac links to 6 that list the showstopper tickets for
    the current release (this assumes that the showstoppers
    have trac tickets and, preferably, milestone and severity
    information)

- add info about next release and blocking issues to 3 (and to
    the other OS-specific pages) - downloaders should not have
    to guess that the current version is a beta, or what problems
    have been found with it
",defect,assigned,minor,2012.4.0.0,Web site,,,