[Haskell-cafe] Maintaining the community

[Andrew Coppin]

Claus Reinke wrote:
>> Maybe I'm looking wrong, but it often isn't obvious to me how to 
>> figure out the answer to the question "does all this cool stuff work 
>> yet?" I'm not really sure what we could change to fix that though...
>
> the Haskell Community & Activity Reports were created in part to 
> answer that kind of question. within the limitations of 6-monthly 
> editions (too frequent for some projects, too infrequent for others),
> they have tried to do ever since November 2001, the latest dating
> from May 2007:
>
>    http://www.haskell.org/communities/
>
> since contributors are encouraged to look ahead in plans, as well
> as look back on achievements, the interval of not knowing where
> things stand is actually shorter than 6 months. provided that people
> remember to write and submit entries about their favourite haskell 
> projects when the editor comes calling before November/May!-)

Thanks - I'll take a look...