[ANNOUNCE] Formation of the initial GHC Steering Committee

2017-01-03 Thread Ben Gamari
Dear Haskell community, Over the past months we have discussed changes to GHC's process for collecting, discussing, and considering new language extensions, compiler features, and the like. Happily, we are now ready to move forward with our new proposal process. Towards this end, we have formed

Re: Trac to Phabricator (Maniphest) migration prototype

2017-01-03 Thread Edward Z. Yang
Excerpts from Matthew Pickering's message of 2017-01-03 23:32:42 +: > The version field is not very useful as there are only two active > branches at once. Instead we want a project which marks tickets which > apply to the 8.0.2 branch for example. Tickets which refer to ancient > versions of

Re: Trac to Phabricator (Maniphest) migration prototype

2017-01-03 Thread Richard Eisenberg
On 1/3/17 6:32 PM, Matthew Pickering wrote: The version field is not very useful as there are only two active branches at once. Instead we want a project which marks tickets which apply to the 8.0.2 branch for example. Tickets which refer to ancient versions of GHC should be closed if they can't

Re: Trac to Phabricator (Maniphest) migration prototype

2017-01-03 Thread Matthew Pickering
Good comments Edward. I think the answers to all three of your points will be insightful. 1. As for why it appears some information from the ticket is missing. The version field is not very useful as there are only two active branches at once. Instead we want a project which marks tickets which

Re: Trac to Phabricator (Maniphest) migration prototype

2017-01-03 Thread Edward Z. Yang
Hi Matthew, Thanks for doing the work for setting up this prototype, it definitely helps in making an informed decision about the switch. Some comments: 1. In your original email, you stated that many of the custom fields were going to be replaced with Phabricator "projects" (their

Re: Trac to Phabricator (Maniphest) migration prototype

2017-01-03 Thread Matthew Pickering
Thanks everyone for the comments so far. If you use Trac regularly then please comment. Thinking this is a bad idea but not commenting is not particularly useful as it leaves everyone in a limbo. I moved the site to a smaller instance so it would cost me less money to host.