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by endorphine 975 days ago
> We would like to thank GitHub, IOG, the Zw3rk stake pool, Well-Typed, Tweag I/O, Serokell, Equinix, SimSpace, the Haskell Foundation, and other anonymous contributors whose on-going financial and in-kind support has facilitated GHC maintenance and release management over the years.

Is GitHub sponsoring Haskell development? Or is this them providing some free services (e.g. more Runners) because it's a large and importans OSS project?
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ReleaseCandidat 975 days ago
GHC is hosted on Gitlab, the Github repo is just a mirror. So money.

https://github.com/ghc/ghc https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc

Don't forget that SPJ had been working for MS for quite some years.

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ejlxsh 975 days ago
I am surprised just how much Cardano is responsible for the funding of GHC and what would happen if that stopped - 4 of those supporters are directly related to Cardano and a fifth is somewhere related. I don't know what GitHubs relation is with Haskell and wonder if that's some hosting/CI runners or something?
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angerman 975 days ago
GHC uses self hosted gitlab for its source hosting and review. The gitlab-runners are largely provided by the mentioned support in the announcement, including anonymous and in-kind contributions. The ZW3RK stake pool provides 7 linux, 2 windows, and 3 mac builders.

I only see two directly related supporters? IOG and the stake pool?

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iso8859-1 975 days ago
Github is using GHC to analyze source code, that might be why they're sponsoring.

https://github.com/github/semantic

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