On 17 April 2012 15:51, Eyal Lotem <eyal.lo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey, > > I am personally finding the process of contributing to cabal much more > painful than it would be if it were on github. > > I think the project is losing on contributions, and that's a shame, for the > following reasons: > > A) A contributor isn't certain his contribution will be accepted, and if it > isn't, his effort is in vain. He may very well give up before starting. > With github, worst-case he can maintain a hosted fork, and point people to > it. > > B) Even if it is accepted, *until* it is, he has no easy way of pointing > people to his fork, unlike on github. > > C) Making a pull request is much easier and less trouble than registering to > a mailing list, and the overheads associated with communicating email > patches. I think most collaborators will gladly spend hours improving > cabal, but would rather not spend minutes on patch sending overheads. > > Please move development of cabal to github or at least a darcs-hosting site > where it is easy to make hosted forks and send pull requests.
+1 Conrad. _______________________________________________ cabal-devel mailing list cabal-devel@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cabal-devel
