Hello Andreas!
Andreas Enge <andr...@enge.fr> writes: >> 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. Great! > 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). Understood, will keep in mind. >> 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. Okay, should I contact them separately or do I need to CC someone specific? Regards, -- Divya Ranjan, Philosophy, Mathematics, Libre Software.
