Re: Relocating (some of) GHC's core-libraries to github.com/haskell

2014-05-02 Thread Herbert Valerio Riedel
On 2014-04-29 at 12:27:38 +0200, Simon Marlow wrote: [...] I think that's fine. As Simon points out, we already have lagging repo functionality in the form of the submodule links, so the repo on git.haskell.org can be a pure mirror. Just so I get this right, does pure mirror here mean that

Re: Relocating (some of) GHC's core-libraries to github.com/haskell

2014-04-29 Thread Herbert Valerio Riedel
Hello Simon, On 2014-04-28 at 11:28:35 +0200, Simon Marlow wrote: [...] However, we can configure the lagged mirror such that we'd automatically mirror github's 'master' branch into our lagged mirror (we'd still be free to create local wip/* or ghc-7.10 branches at git.haskell.org if

Re: Relocating (some of) GHC's core-libraries to github.com/haskell

2014-04-29 Thread Simon Marlow
On 29/04/2014 10:58, Herbert Valerio Riedel wrote: Hello Simon, On 2014-04-28 at 11:28:35 +0200, Simon Marlow wrote: [...] However, we can configure the lagged mirror such that we'd automatically mirror github's 'master' branch into our lagged mirror (we'd still be free to create local wip/*

Re: Relocating (some of) GHC's core-libraries to github.com/haskell

2014-04-29 Thread Edward Kmett
I would really like that as well. My experience is it is rather easy to get users to put together a pull request through github. It is rather more like pulling teeth to get them to use git properly and put together a traditional patch. This would greatly open up the workflow for end users

Re: Relocating (some of) GHC's core-libraries to github.com/haskell

2014-04-29 Thread Andrew Farmer
+1 On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 9:46 AM, Edward Kmett ekm...@gmail.com wrote: I would really like that as well. My experience is it is rather easy to get users to put together a pull request through github. It is rather more like pulling teeth to get them to use git properly and put together a

Re: Relocating (some of) GHC's core-libraries to github.com/haskell

2014-04-28 Thread Simon Marlow
So let me check that I'm understanding correctly. Right now the source of truth for these repos is under git.haskell.org/ghc, and you're proposing that we move the source of truth to github. In addition we would still need the git.haskell.org/ghc repos, but they would become lagging repos

Re: Relocating (some of) GHC's core-libraries to github.com/haskell

2014-04-28 Thread Simon Marlow
On 28/04/2014 09:32, Herbert Valerio Riedel wrote: Hello Simon, On 2014-04-28 at 10:16:39 +0200, Simon Marlow wrote: So let me check that I'm understanding correctly. Right now the source of truth for these repos is under git.haskell.org/ghc, and you're proposing that we move the source of

Relocating (some of) GHC's core-libraries to github.com/haskell

2014-04-27 Thread Herbert Valerio Riedel
Hi GHC devs, In accordance with Edward and Austin, I want to move the primary home of the non-GHC specific core-library packages to the http://github.com/haskell/ organization. Specifically, I plan to move the following package Git repositories to the github.com/haskell organization: - array