Meta-discussion about 2018 setup

[saurabhnanda]

• Is it the Reddit thread?
• Is it this repo?
• Or, is it some mailing list?

Also, what happened to the other ideas at https://summer.haskell.org/ideas.html ?

[wisn]

Don't use Reddit please since in several countries (like Indonesia) blocked by the government. Can we use another platform, @jaspervdj? Several organizations use Gitter, Slack, or Zulip for their GSoC discussion.

[saurabhnanda]

Actually, even this Github repo is fine, because it allows one to tag other people/orgs on Github.

[gbaz]

Ideas should be submitted to the repo as PRs or tickets. There is a #haskell-gsoc channel we have used on freenode in the past. The old ideas that were deleted were the ones that were successfully completed last year, so should not serve as the basis for new proposals.

[wisn]

Yes, it is fine to use GitHub. Mailing list is a bit...

[saurabhnanda]

The old ideas that were deleted were the ones that were successfully completed last year, so should not serve as the basis for new proposals.

Is the old ideas page archived somewhere? Ideally everything should be archived under /2017 (or /2016).

As per the timeline - applications for organizations will be open from 4-23 Jan. We have only two ideas till now?

[wisn]

I've ask several projects.

• https://github.com/haskell-servant/servant/issues/880
• https://github.com/bos/aeson/issues/616
• https://github.com/hspec/hspec/issues/339

[saurabhnanda]

I've asked one - https://github.com/lpsmith/postgresql-simple/issues/242 and also HIE (via IRC).

[jaspervdj]

I also prefer using GitHub since it is easy to set up (unlike a mailing list), most people have an account already, and it's persistent (unlike Slack/IRC).

[saurabhnanda]

Formally pinged HIE at https://github.com/haskell/haskell-ide-engine/issues/434

[saurabhnanda]

Re-confirming we have only 2 ideas submitted formally? Btw, as per the timeline applications for organizations open today.

[gbaz]

We have some others sitting around in PRs. I don't think we need them all in until the deadline, but this is a good reminder that we should round some further ones up...

[jaspervdj]

I'm hoping to have 6-8 ideas by the time we submit. I'm a bit busy this week but will have time over the weekend to flesh things out.

[alanz]

@saurabhnanda See https://github.com/haskell-org/summer-of-haskell/pull/36 for HIE

[wisn]

Congratulation! Haskell accepted as a mentor organization in GSoC 2018! See here. Thank you for your hard work @jaspervdj et al.