GHC Blog now on Trac

Simon Marlow marlowsd at gmail.com
Tue Aug 24 09:36:42 EDT 2010


We've had a GHC blog on Wordpress for a while, but it doesn't get used 
much except for the occasional article that I post, and I find it quite 
painful to use the Wordpress UI for blogging (maybe that's just me).

Anyway, it turns out there's a Trac plugin for blogging, and it looks 
like it works pretty well.  Ian has kindly installed it on the GHC Trac:

   http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/blog

The advantages of having the blog on Trac include:

  - we get to use wiki markup, which we already know
  - we can link directly to other content (e.g. tickets) on Trac
  - anyone with a developer account on the Trac can blog
  - we might notice the "Blog" button more often and actually use it :)

Adding a post is easy: just click "New post" in the corner and type into 
the form.  We'll get it aggregated into the Haskell Planet in due 
course, but first let's make sure it's doing what we want.

Cheers,
	Simon



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