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More generally, could the current status of the platform please 
be made *obvious early* on its webpages? Currently, a visit
looking for such info might go like this:

1.  http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/
    doesn't say anything about versions or timelines

2.  http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/contents.html
    gives GHC versions, without linking them to HP versions
    or timelines

3.  http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/windows.html
    lists current version and timeline of older versions (good),
    but does not state that the current version is a beta, nor
    does it indicate that there is a stable version due, or what
    problems are keeping the beta from becoming stable

4.  http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Haskell_Platform
    does not offer much info, but seems to be the only page
    linking to

5.  http://trac.haskell.org/haskell-platform/
    no current version info, release time table is only for package 
    maintainers, none of the "open bug reports" has a 2010.x
    milestone

6.  http://trac.haskell.org/haskell-platform/wiki/ReleaseTimetable
    THERE!-) This is the information I was looking for, at least part
    of it! But where is the rest?

I suggest the following changes as a minimum improvement:

- link to 6 directly from 1 (even better: insert cute calendar with
    highlighted release timelines on 1!-)
- add current version overview for each OS to 1 (in case the
    per-OS versions are out of sync)

- add trac links to 6 that list the showstopper tickets for
    the current release (this assumes that the showstoppers 
    have trac tickets and, preferably, milestone and severity
    information)

- add info about next release and blocking issues to 3 (and to
    the other OS-specific pages) - downloaders should not have
    to guess that the current version is a beta, or what problems
    have been found with it

Claus

 


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