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On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 11:58:59AM +1000, Donald Bruce Stewart wrote:
After some discussion on the libraries list, I've put up the suggested 'best practice' for proposing library changes, here:
http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Library_submissions
The idea is to reduce the number of 'bikeshed' discussions we're having, ensure that submissions are not dropped, and generally improve productivity.
People should refer to this when proposing new functions for the core libraries, at risk of not having the suggestion adopted or considered ;)
Perhaps it would be kinder to the mail system to suggest attaching the patch to the ticket instead of mailing it. These patches to base are quite big, and are causing trouble.
Good idea. So instead of 'darcs send', we'd use the Trac system to send a combined proposal and patch?
And if we could get the ticket mail sent to libraries instead of ghc-users, that would make the procedure simpler, too.
Ah yes. Igloo or SimonM, do you admin trac? For the time being I've increased the libraries@ limit to 250k, inline with that for ghc-cvs and cvs-all@. -- Don