Re: Haskell Platform Proposal: add the 'text' library

On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 04:52:38PM +1100, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote:

On 10 October 2010 16:24, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:

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Do we have a collective opinion about revision control or bug tracking for Platform libraries? I'm about done using darcs for anything where I don't need to. I've been thinking about publishing the repo, and hosting bugs, on github instead. Any reason not to?

I personally don't like sites such as github, gitorious, patch-tag, etc. for one overriding reason: projects are instantly oriented around the lead developer.

You can create organisations on github nowadays. for example, you could create a haskell-platform organisation, with some users having admin rights over the whole organisation. Then you have the per repository level rights, where you can set who are maintainers. Personally, i don't see the lead developer oriented view as a problem; it's not that hard to update couple of links (cabal homepage/repository link on hackage for example) to point to a new lead developer, an organisation, a project page, or another site altogether. -- Vincent