Alexander Berntsen
On 20/07/16 19:04, Ben Gamari wrote:
I know, it's rather frustrating. I also have fairly strong feelings about open-source purity, but in this case I just don't see any way to improve the current situation under this constraint.
I don't think that starting to rely on proprietary software *is* an improvement, but the opposite.
This is a bit of a judgement call. I know this is a long-contested issue, but personally for me it puts me at ease if, * the proprietary code is running on someone else's machine * I can use the application with open tools (a web browser of your choice, git, and an email client) * I can get my data out if needed
It does look like Gitlab is an impressive option but really then we are back to the problem of fragmented development tools. Using Trac, Phabricator, Gitlab, and mailing lists all in one project seems a bit silly.
I don't understand why using GitLab is more silly than using GitHub, when considering fragmentation.
When put this way my argument does indeed sound a bit silly. :-) Perhaps it's not. I think the difference is that we would be consolidating on a platform which much of the Haskell community already uses in their non-GHC development. Cheers, - Ben