<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 15px;">[RESENT MESSAGE — see <a href="https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/ghc-devops-group/2017-October/000004.html" class="">https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/ghc-devops-group/2017-October/000004.html</a>]</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">From: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Ben Gamari <<a href="mailto:ben@well-typed.com" class="">ben@well-typed.com</a>><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">Aw: [GHC DevOps Group] FreeBSD in Tier 1</b><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Date: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">10. Oktober 2017 um 02:03:32 GMT+11<br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Manuel M T Chakravarty <<a href="mailto:manuel.chakravarty@tweag.io" class="">manuel.chakravarty@tweag.io</a>>, Simon Marlow <<a href="mailto:marlowsd@gmail.com" class="">marlowsd@gmail.com</a>><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Cc: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><a href="mailto:ghc-devops-group@haskell.org" class="">ghc-devops-group@haskell.org</a>, Pali Gabor Janos <<a href="mailto:pali.gabor@gmail.com" class="">pali.gabor@gmail.com</a>><br class=""></span></div><br class=""><div class=""><div class="">Manuel M T Chakravarty <<a href="mailto:manuel.chakravarty@tweag.io" class="">manuel.chakravarty@tweag.io</a>> writes:<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">According to <br class=""><br class=""> <a href="https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/TeamGHC" class="">https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/TeamGHC</a><br class=""> <<a href="https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/TeamGHC" class="">https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/TeamGHC</a>><br class=""><br class="">it is Páli Gábor János aka pgj whose last commit was 20 Jul 2016:<br class=""><br class=""> <a href="https://github.com/ghc/ghc/commit/0df3f4cdd1dfff42461e3f5c3962f1ecd7c90652" class="">https://github.com/ghc/ghc/commit/0df3f4cdd1dfff42461e3f5c3962f1ecd7c90652</a><br class=""> <<a href="https://github.com/ghc/ghc/commit/0df3f4cdd1dfff42461e3f5c3962f1ecd7c90652" class="">https://github.com/ghc/ghc/commit/0df3f4cdd1dfff42461e3f5c3962f1ecd7c90652</a>><br class=""><br class=""></blockquote>While Páli does not contribute many patches, I can confirm that he is<br class="">indeed active. In fact, he recently provided an explanation of the<br class="">failure that Mathieu observed in #14300. In short, the issue is that the<br class="">platform toolchain is buggy due to tiresome licensing issue. In my<br class="">experience GHC builds without any trouble on FreeBSD 11, which has a<br class="">new, less broken toolchain.<br class=""><br class="">Cheers,<br class=""><br class="">- Ben<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>