On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 12:29:01PM +0000, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
My own understanding is this:
A GHC *user* is someone who uses GHC, but doesn't care how it is implemented. A GHC *developer* is someone who wants to work on GHC itself in some way.
The current mailing lists:
* glasgow-haskell-users: for anything that a GHC *user* cares about * glasgow-haskell-bugs: same, but with a focus on bug reporting
I see glasgow-haskell-bugs as being mainly for developers, who want to see what bugs are coming in. It's true that we do give e-mailing it as a (less preferred) way for users to submit a bug on http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/ReportABug but I wonder if we shouldn't change that. It's rare that we get a bug report e-mailed, and normally we ultimately end up creating a trac ticket for it anyway. I'm sure that people who really want to submit a bug report and for whatever reason can't use trac will e-mail it somewhere sensible. Thanks Ian