On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 11:56:51PM +0200, Herbert Valerio Riedel wrote:
One benefit I see from using GitHub is that this way would we be closer to the Haskell community (given the majority of Hackage packages are hosted on GitHub), and our work would be more transparent for the community as well as offering a lower barrier to participation/contribution.
Moreover, I think GitHub would also help make our efforts/progress towards a revised Haskell Report more visible to the community, which in turn may even provide us the motivation to carry on...
Hello, personally I would be more likely to read/participate in the discussions if such discussions were hosted here or on Trac rather than Github. haskell-prime@ is just one 'subscribe' away, comes in a familiar package to haskell-cafe@ participants (a mailing list) and interface (their mail client); I cannot say the same about Github. Similarly, Trac allows me to follow new issues (new tickets notifications or the life of a single ticket in particular) via rss, without having to register to a new service. Of course: 1. this is just my experience -- there are many haskell developers on Github and they probably like the workflow there (I would still say the haskell-cafe@ audience is bigger though). 2. I am not a committee member. In the end it's them who are going to pour blood/sweat/tears in the report; whichever tool the committee chooses is the right one