Hello,
I also sometimes wish that GHC developer discussions happened in a single
place, separate from the commits and ticket lists (at present they are
sometimes on ghc-users and sometimes on cvs-ghc). For what it's worth, I
don't follow the commit and build-bot messages closely, instead I use
various git tools to catch up on what's going on with the development
(mostly I use gitk, git-gub, and our own git-web instance on
darcs.haskell.org). I do find the trac bug messages useful though, both
as a GHC user and a GHC developer.
-Iavor
On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 9:04 AM, Ian Lynagh
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
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