inactive issues

2015-02-24 Thread lennart spitzner
hi, i noticed today's run at the closing inactive issues on the tracker. i would like to to ask an innocent question: what exactly is the benefit of this action? (i disclose that it seems to me that valid, if inactive, issues are being closed, which i do not like. but before complaining, i want

Re: Cabal-1.22 keyed library filepaths

2015-02-24 Thread Jens Petersen
Hi Edward, On 9 February 2015 at 07:10, Edward Z. Yang ezy...@mit.edu wrote: Jens, could file a Cabal bug for the contents of this email? I opened https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues/2437. Sorry for the delay, I was travelling and just saw your mail now. Thanks, Jens

Re: Looking for a new release manager for cabal

2015-02-24 Thread Mikhail Glushenkov
Hi, On 22 February 2015 at 14:01, Johan Tibell johan.tib...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, After about 3 years of cabal releases I'm looking for someone else to take over the responsibility as cabal release manager. Thank you for all your hard work managing Cabal releases during all this time.

Re: inactive issues

2015-02-24 Thread Johan Tibell
Good question. These issues were closed on my request. I've done similar clean-ups in the past. The issue tracker has gotten to large to be effective in help guide our work. We need to clean it up. In addition, lots of these issues weren't linked to the original reporter, making it less likely

Re: inactive issues

2015-02-24 Thread Thomas Tuegel
On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 3:52 PM, lennart spitzner l...@informatik.uni-kiel.de wrote: hi, i noticed today's run at the closing inactive issues on the tracker. i would like to to ask an innocent question: what exactly is the benefit of this action? (i disclose that it seems to me that valid,