Simon Peyton-Jones schrieb:
* Gregory writes "The fact of the matter is, I would definitely like to contribute but I'm not going near our current process with a 20-foot barge pole. And I'm unequivocally not the only potential contributor who feels this way. From an interested observer's perspective, it seems like libraries@ is where good code goes to die, and I don't have the time, energy, or patience to endure it."
Others may agree or disagree with this view, but it is a *fact* that G feels this way, and that he believes that others do too. That's alarming to me, and I think we need to take it seriously, since G has done us the courtesy of explaining his position (thank you Gregory). Quite what we might do to address these concerns isn't so clear to me. I'm agnostic about technology, my gut feel is that the core issues are not technological ones (eg github vs darcs).
My main reason for not proposing something for the base libraries the official way is that I was never able to at least run a nightly build of GHC and was even more scared by building GHC + base libraries myself. I would highly appreciate a way to build base libraries without building GHC.