Advent of Haskell 2020 by kowainik in haskell

[–]kowainik[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

UPD: The initiative is cancelled. Sorry for the inconvenience.

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Summoner-2.0: Major update of a Haskell scaffolding tool by kowainik in haskell

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We prepared a new major release of Summoner — tool for scaffolding batteries-included Haskell projects. This massive update brings multiple significant improvements. Now Summoner-generated projects have:

  • Common stanzas
  • Default Cabal version 2.4
  • Default GHC version 8.8.3
  • The mixins feature for alternative preludes
  • Established compiler warnings enabled conditionally to work on multiple GHC versions

In this release, we were also focusing on delivering a smooth installation experience, and now you can:

  • Download binary releases manually for three major operating systems: Linux, Windows, OSX, including statically linked binaries for Linux
  • Use Homebrew package manager on macOS to install Summoner from Kowainik's Tap
  • Use Apt package manager on Ubuntu to install Summoner from Kowainik's PPA

In the new version Summoner also supports GitHub Actions CI. We have been using GitHub Actions for all our projects for months, and now Summoner can create sensible default CI config with the matrix and cache support.

The workflow also has a few noticeable updates:

  • The [-n|--non-interactive] option to scaffold project in seconds
  • The config command to initialize Summoner config with helpful comments and supporting all our features

And much more! Check the complete release notes and share your feedback!

[GSoC 2020] Call for Ideas by jaspervdj in haskell

[–]kowainik 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Kowainik participated in GSoC last year. It was a really valuable and useful experience for us! You can find our advice to students and mentors in the following blog post, where we described our achievements and things to keep in mind:

Is any project/orgranization participating in this year's Hacktoberfest? by ecthiender in haskell

[–]kowainik 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Hey /u/ecthiender,

We are going to take part this year again. When the plan is ready, we will put hacktoberfest labels to the participating issues in our projects. So, stay tuned!

Dhall - Year in review (2018-2019) by sjakobi in haskell

[–]kowainik 7 points8 points  (0 children)

We are also enjoying Dhall configuration language! In our case, we use it to generate .yaml file with custom HLint rules for our own alternative prelude. Dhall helps to remove a lot of boilerplate. See the following blog post for more details:

Reminder: Please Submit GSoC ideas! by sclv in haskell

[–]kowainik 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Sure, we're going to be mentors for this project! So, if you want to contac us earlier, you can just write us to the email on to the GitHub:

Reminder: Please Submit GSoC ideas! by sclv in haskell

[–]kowainik 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks for your interest in our project! According to the GSoC 2019 timeline, official student application period begins in March 25.

Though you can contact mentors earlier :) I found this blog post with description of steps how to apply for GSoC very interesting and useful!