Add GitHub Release notes

[Blaisorblade]

I've been looking for Cabal 2 release notes in a few places. Turns out I can edit release notes for releases, so I took the liberty of adding links to @23Skidoo's post (http://coldwa.st/e/blog/2017-09-09-Cabal-2-0.html) to a couple of places:

https://github.com/haskell/cabal/releases/tag/Cabal-v2.0.0.2
https://github.com/haskell/cabal/releases/tag/cabal-install-v2.0.0.0

Unfortunately, I realized GitHub changed the release date and tagged me as releaser—I think that's unfortunate but hopefully not crucial. @23Skidoo was the original releaser—I imagine you might want to edit descriptions further.

I've already seen #4013, but a changelog belongs also on GitHub.

[Blaisorblade]

To clarify: I'm aware this move was haphazard, not coordinated, and I haven't contributed to cabal in ages.

I also think the new release notes are a strict improvement, they would have helped past me, and they're likely to help others.

[Blaisorblade]

Forgot to say: this was after I failed finding good such release notes for ~30 minutes.

Could links be added to

1. https://github.com/haskell/cabal/releases, 2. http://hackage.haskell.org/package/cabal-install-2.0.0.0/changelog (or the package description), 3. http://hackage.haskell.org/package/Cabal-2.0.0.2/changelog (only semi-appropriate).

Some of that time was also spent on http://www.haskell.org/, https://wiki.haskell.org/Haskell, googling for "haskell cabal news 2" or such, looking at cabal-dev archives, and so on.

[23Skidoo]

Unfortunately, I realized GitHub changed the release date and tagged me as releaser

np, I guess that updating the GitHub releases page should be added to release checklist.

I failed finding good such release notes for ~30 minutes

I just checked, and my blog post comes up as one of the top hits when you google for "cabal 2.0", however it may be just me. I'll add a couple more links.

[Blaisorblade]

I just checked, and my blog post comes up as one of the top hits when you google for "cabal 2.0",

I had searched "cabal 2.0 news", which has pretty confusing results (including videogames?). Your blog is the 7th for me, which is probably why I missed it. I've seen issues on SEO for Haskell websites elsewhere, but I only understand "an expert could improve things and I'm not".

Here's a screenshot of my results. It also doubles as "where the list might be added".

EDIT:

updating the GitHub releases page should be added to release checklist.

👍

[portnov]

Well, I managed to google this issue by "cabal 2.0 release notes" :)