Re: Thoughts on the Contributing page

2019-01-23 Thread Tobias Dammers
On Sat, Jan 19, 2019 at 03:55:06PM -0500, Ben Gamari wrote: > > > For those following along at home: > >David has been looking at revising our contributor documentation. >He has started consolidating a variety of relevant content on the >Contributing page of the Wiki [1]. Below are

GHC wiki fixup

2019-03-21 Thread Tobias Dammers
Hello all, I am about to push a relatively large set of semi-automatic changes to the GHC wiki on GitLab (https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/wikis). This changeset is the result of re-running the original Trac import, with a few bugfixes applied to it, and then cherry-picking the resulting

Re: Gitlab bug?

2019-02-26 Thread Tobias Dammers
in the second position (the correct one) the "Reply" box is > inactive. I can't type into it. > > Is this is a bug? How to report it? > > Simon > ___ > ghc-devs mailing list > ghc-devs@hask

Re: Gitlab bug?

2019-02-26 Thread Tobias Dammers
> > http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs > > <http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs> > ___ > ghc-devs mailing list > ghc-devs@haskell.org > http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs -- Tobias Dammers - tdamm...@gmail.com ___ ghc-devs mailing list ghc-devs@haskell.org http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs

Newcomers' Guide to GHC Development

2019-02-27 Thread Tobias Dammers
e. We have gotten some great responses already, but I'd like to gather one more round of feedback before merging it into the freshly-migrated Haskell Wiki on GitLab. Thank you for your attention! -- Tobias Dammers - tdamm...@gmail.com ___ ghc-devs mailin

Re: Newcomers' Guide to GHC Development

2019-03-04 Thread Tobias Dammers
On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 12:43:12PM +0100, Spiwack, Arnaud wrote: > - The dependencies instruction are too complex and long-winded. I'd start > by: if you are a nix user, use , otherwise you need > installed [in particular, no sectioning of the dependencies!], > see to find instruction for your

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Final steps in GHC's Trac-to-GitLab migration

2019-03-06 Thread Tobias Dammers
For context: there is a total of 22 pages that use the redirect feature. So it may actually be feasible to just do this manually. On Wed, Mar 06, 2019 at 01:05:28PM +0100, Tobias Dammers wrote: > On Wed, Mar 06, 2019 at 06:09:35AM -0500, Ben Gamari wrote: > > The lacking redirec

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Final steps in GHC's Trac-to-GitLab migration

2019-03-06 Thread Tobias Dammers
On Wed, Mar 06, 2019 at 06:09:35AM -0500, Ben Gamari wrote: > The lacking redirect support is unfortunate. In my opinion this is something > we will need to handle going forward as well; a one time solution like adding > nginx redirects doesn't seem like the right approach to me. > > I would

Re: Newcomers' Guide to GHC Development

2019-03-05 Thread Tobias Dammers
Hi, thanks for your feedback. I'll get into some detail below. On Sat, Mar 02, 2019 at 11:36:06AM +1100, Julian Leviston wrote: > The updated version could be improved by shaping it into clearer > sections because we’d like newcomers to feel like it’s light and easy. > Layers is a great way to

Re: Commit comments - call for opinions

2019-02-07 Thread Tobias Dammers
one commit, and they will all be linked. GitLab does not support duplicating the text into the issue timeline verbatim however; if we want that even for future commits, then we will have to come up with some sort of hack (either patch GitLab to do it on the fly, or run some external bot that injects th

Re: Thoughts on the Contributing page

2019-01-24 Thread Tobias Dammers
On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 12:54:51PM -0500, Ben Gamari wrote: > > > Sounds like we are largely in agreement. Let's start on this after the > Trac migration is finished. I can in fact start working on this already while the migration is pipelined. It's just markdown in git, so writing a draft and

Re: Thoughts on the Contributing page

2019-01-30 Thread Tobias Dammers
On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 03:01:24PM +, Matthew Pickering wrote: > Whilst we're at it, is there any consensus to make the default build > settings more friendly to developers? > > The default is still perf which takes a very long time. devel2 would > be an appropriate choice I think for

Re: Thoughts on the Contributing page

2019-01-31 Thread Tobias Dammers
efer to it during code review. Even better, we > could excerpt it as a checklist in our merge request description > template (I have put up an initial attempt at this as !149). > > Anyways, there is more to be said here but this email is getting a bit >

Re: Thoughts on the Contributing page

2019-01-29 Thread Tobias Dammers
On Sat, Jan 19, 2019 at 03:55:06PM -0500, Ben Gamari wrote: > > > For those following along at home: > >David has been looking at revising our contributor documentation. >He has started consolidating a variety of relevant content on the >Contributing page of the Wiki [1]. Below are

Re: How to teach Hadrian not to build ghctags and haddock

2019-02-04 Thread Tobias Dammers
bunch of editor support and other tooling configuration, and link to that from the newcomers' guide? -- Tobias Dammers - tdamm...@gmail.com ___ ghc-devs mailing list ghc-devs@haskell.org http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs