You left out the fact that the program ran 60x faster after upgrading to ghc-6.6, so it's actually quite usable now.

But yes, transcribed phone meeting notes are not designed to convey humor well, nor do they shield the reader from the fact that most reports consist of busy people complaining that they have only 24 hours in a day. :-)

A much better view of where things stand comes from mailing lists and the irc channels, but those take a certain amount of ongoing attention.