
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 - directory - filepath - old-locale - old-time - process - stm - unix (N.B.: the 'Win32' package already lives at github.com/haskell) I'm not sure yet about the following packages, those are not officially maintained by the committee (@Simon, maybe you can state your preference where you want your packages to be hosted/issue-tracked in the future?) - parallel - deepseq - hpc - hoopl - haskell2010 - haskell98 The practical effects to GHC developers of this switch would be that: - Issue tracking for those packages moves over to GitHub. (the official maintaing entity is the core-library committee) - In ghc.git those packages will be *turned into Git submodules* (i.e. they will be handled just like the other existing 3rd party upstream packages such as 'Win32' or 'Cabal' are already handled[1], see also next item) - Using pull-requests on GitHub is highly recommended for submitting changes which are not urgent (instead of diverging the respective git.haskell.org lagged mirror repo) -- note also that pull-requests will be validated by Travis-CI for multiple GHC versions to help detect compat-breaking changes. However, GHC developers can easily be given push-rights to the respective repos in the github.com/haskell/ organization should this turn out to be a more appropriate workflow. [1]: https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Repositories/Upstream#Modifiyinglibrar... PS: 'haddock.git' is planned to move its issue tracking over to GitHub as well, however it's going to be handled slightly different (mostly because haddock is tightly coupled to the GHC API) and will be explained in more detail in a future separate email. Cheers, hvr