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.

Current

• Stable: Haskell Platform 2009.2.0
• Unstable: 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/

Help us out: open a new ticket

Further info

• The Haskell Platform
• The Haskell Platform Developers Home (this page)
• Mailing list
• Discussion in #ghc @ freenode

Tasks

• Tasks for the next release
• Open tickets relating to the platform

Release Team Documentation

• VersionNumbers: how the release version numbers work
• ReleaseProcess
• Guides for AddingPackages and QualityControl?

Distro Maintainer Documentation

• Windows
• OS X
• Arch Linux
• NixOS

Current Specification

• 2009.2.0 packages
• global version matrix
• The Release Roadmap

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Candidates for Upgrade: 2009.2.1

These packages have version-compliant (?) newer versions than provided in 2009.2.0:

Package	Ticket	Result
GLUT 2.1.2.1	#38
network 2.2.1.1	#39	YES
OpenGL 2.2.1.1	#40
happy 1.18.4	#41	YES
GHC 6.10.3	#42	YES

Candidates for explicit inclusion: 2009.2.1

Package	Ticket	Result
Library/editline	#44	YES

Candidates for deprecation: 2009.2.1

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Related projects

• Python libraries
• Gnome's release process
• How to propose modules for GNOME
• OCaml Batteries
• Lua for Windows

Background Reading

• Haskell: Batteries Included, position paper by Don, Duncan and Isaac.
• Slides from the Haskell Platform talk
• Haskell Platform discussion
• Bryan O'Sullivan's writeup of the future of Haskell discussion
• A discussion took place in June and July 2008 about the direction of the HLP.
• More occurred during the #ghc meeting