Hello Divya, I would like to only reply to your last point:
Am Mon, Oct 21, 2024 at 02:50:43PM +0000 schrieb Divya: > Regarding copyright assignment, I've already started the paperwork by emailing > the form to ass...@gnu.org. I did it through Emacs, but I believe I don't need > to do it again? Some guidance for that would also be helpful. No need to assign copyright for work on Guix, we keep the individual contributors. But I may as well comment on the other ones and have myself corrected by more knowlegeable people from the corresponding teams. > I've been using Guix for the last few months. As a Haskell programmer, I > realized the latest stable that's available in the guix package repository is > 9.2.8 which is _really_ old, considering that the current stable releases are > at least older than 9.6.x. > > I'd like to contribute to this if I can, since I myself would like to have the > latest GHC for my uses. So, how can I get the latest versions available? Do I > need to add every release, or can I just add the most latest? > > Also, is the process of adding a GHC release, or any Haskell package any > different from the typical procedure to add a package? I'd like some > introductory guidance/resources to learn that. There should not be a difference with packages for other languages. As far as I know, however, ghc is annoying to bootstrap, and we need at least the latest x.y.z version to continue to x.(y+2). > The same is true for rustc, the latest stable release is not updated. I'd like > to help with that, if possible. For rust, there is a special branch rust-team, where the work is coordinated. Andreas
