Re: how to checkout proper submodules

On 06/05/2013 10:10 AM, David Terei wrote:

On 5 June 2013 01:43, Manuel M T Chakravarty wrote:

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I agree with Austin and Johan. It's a bizarre setup. Submodules have their pain points (which we already have to deal with), but the ability to properly snapshot and branch the whole tree would be a serious benefit IMO.

Manuel

PS: While we are at it, why don't we just have the main repos on GitHub and use forks and pull requests like the rest of the world? (Using Git, but not GitHub's superb infrastructure, seems like a terrible waste to me.)

I'd be all for this. We partially use the GitHub infrastructure since trac broke and I changed the emails to point to GitHub instead. I also often do code reviews with other devs on a personal GHC fork on github before merging in.

I believe it would also help encourage more contributors (especially for libraries) but others have expressed disagreement with this point of view in the past and I'm not in hold of data. As a very recent new (try-to-be-)contributor, i'ld like to weight in, in favor of this.

IMHO, having to create a trac account, and submit patches by attachment (with the confusing trac UI) instead of just pushing to some repositories and issuing pull requests is quite suboptimal. I don't think it would scare anyone enough that they wouldn't contribute, but lowering the "entry cost" is always useful. -- Vincent