2014-06-06 7:05 GMT+03:00 Austin Seipp
2) Phabricator in particular makes it very easy to submit patches for review. To submit a patch, I just run the command 'arc diff' and it Does The Right Thing. It also makes it easy to ensure people are *alerted* when a patch might be relevant to them.
This sounds really good. I was thinking about sending an email about this for a while now. I'm reading some parts of GHC and there are lots of small patches I'd like to submit for reviews. Most of the time these are <10 lines of changes. But trac makes everything so hard and the interface is so horrible, I'm ending up not sending the patch. Also, testing is a huge problem for me. I can't test GHC on my laptop(which is my only development environment) because it takes forever to finish. With something like Github and a CI server(Jenkins/Travis/whatever) integrated to the Github repository that runs tests on pull request, it would be super easy for new contributors to submit small patches. As far as I can understand(altough currently I can't see how to send a patch) Phabricator helps sending pull requests/patches, but does it help with testing too? --- Ömer Sinan Ağacan http://osa1.net