Re: Can we move bytestring to github?

We've gotten one pull request for bytestring there, and speaking for myself, the really nice github code review (as well as the fact that I'm subscribed to github.com/haskell notifications) has meant that we've gotten at least one new pair of eyeballs looking at patches. On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 12:19 PM, Leon Smith wrote:

Out of curiousity, how has the bytestring-github migration progressed?

On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 7:45 AM, Ben Millwood wrote:

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On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 05:41:47PM +0000, Duncan Coutts wrote:

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On Mon, 2013-02-11 at 20:15 -0800, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:

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Hi, Duncan -

The subject says it all. I'd like to contribute some patches to bytestring, but darcs is a big wall at this point, and the package has no bug tracker.

Ah but that's because it has no bugs ;-)

(It actually does have a bug tracker, it's a component in the ghc trac. It's true that it doesn't get used much, but then there have been very few bugs in recent years.)

Crucially, it's not linked from the Hackage page; when I wanted to report a concern with ByteString I e-mailed the addresses in the bug-reports field and received no response.

http://hackage.haskell.org/**package/bytestringhttp://hackage.haskell.org/package/bytestring

It wasn't terribly important, something about hGetSome being added in a minor version, but regardless the impression that I got was that there was nobody paying attention. Moving to Github would fix that but so would just updating the bug-reports field.

(Nevertheless, I'm generally in favour of things moving to github since it reduces the number of user interfaces I have to think about, and reduces how much I am punished for still not working out how to use darcs.)

Ben

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