Changes between Version 63 and Version 64 of WikiStart

Timestamp:

05/09/09 23:39:31 (4 years ago)

Author:

dons (IP: 71.237.194.166)

Comment:

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WikiStart

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+The Haskell Platform Release Team helps to coordinate the platform release process, mainly by creating a 6-monthly release schedule, and keeping everyone informed about the various stages of that schedule. We work for the developer community, helping everyone to work together and make progress. We try not to get in the way.
 
-== The Haskell Platform ==
+== Current ==
 
-The 2009.2.0 release is now live. [http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/ Download the Haskell Platform 2009.2.0]
+ * Stable: [http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/ Haskell Platform 2009.2.0]
+ * Unstable: [http://darcs.haskell.org/haskell-platform/ 2009.2.1]
+
+The platform itself is maintained as a cabal file, some scripts and tools, and a website: ''darcs get http://code.haskell.org/haskell-platform/''
 
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-Open a new ticket </font><a href="http://trac.haskell.org/haskell-platform/newticket?summary=<Problem>&description=<Describe the problem>&component=Platform"><img width=18 height=18 src="http://galois.com/~dons/images/plus-icon.jpg"></a>
+Help us out: open a new ticket </font><a href="http://trac.haskell.org/haskell-platform/newticket?summary=<Problem>&description=<Describe the problem>&component=Platform"><img width=18 height=18 src="http://galois.com/~dons/images/plus-icon.jpg"></a>
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-A robust and comprehensive suite of blessed libraries for Haskell development.
+== Further info ==
 
+ * [http://hackage.haskell.org/platfrom The Haskell Platform]
  * [http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Haskell_Platform The Haskell Platform User's Home]
  * [http://trac.haskell.org/haskell-platform/wiki/WikiStart The Haskell Platform Developers Home] (this page)
@@ -16 +21 @@
  * Discussion in #ghc @ freenode
 
+== Tasks ==
+
  * [http://trac.haskell.org/haskell-platform/query?status=new&status=assigned&status=reopened&milestone=2009.2.1&order=priority Tasks for the next release]
  * [report:1 Open tickets] relating to the platform
 
-== The Platform Specification ==
-
-The platform itself is maintained as a cabal file, some scripts and tools, and a website:
-
-darcs get http://code.haskell.org/haskell-platform/
-
-Releases are hosted on hackage.haskell.org,
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-http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/
-
-== Info for developers ==
+== Release Team Documentation ==
 
  * VersionNumbers: how the release version numbers work
@@ -35 +32 @@
  * Guides for AddingPackages and QualityControl
 
-== Platform details ==
+== Distro Maintainer Documentation ==
 
  * [wiki:Windows Windows]
  * [wiki:OSX OS X]
- 
  * [http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=26279 Arch Linux]
  * [http://hydra.nixos.org/job/nixpkgs/trunk/haskellPackages_ghc6102.haskellPlatform/jobstatus NixOS]
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-TODO: add pages for distros, the generic unix tarball. See tickets #6, #7 and #8.
 
 == Current Specification ==