[Haskell-cafe] Guidelines for proposing library changes

[Samuel Bronson]

On 11/7/06, Simon Marlow <simonmarhaskell at gmail.com> wrote:
> Samuel Bronson wrote:

> > Well, you have to do it to your local repo, too. And if it is a
> > --partial one, good luck! I can't even get --partial to grab me an
> > older checkpoint properly :-(. Nevermind trying to reproduce the bug
> > as simply as possible...
>
> Both Igloo and I have seen strange behaviour w.r.t. partial repositories with
> GHC.  In my case, I find it hard to decide what is really a bug.  Igloo said
> he'd try to reproduce a buggy case on a smaller repository, but we're keeping
> him too busy with GHC :-)  If anyone else can help us out here - characterise a
> bug report for the darcs folk - we'd be very grateful.

Personally I was hoping lispy's simulations would turn something up...
I already found one bug, but nobody seems to have looked at it yet
:-(. But it wasn't the bug I was looking for.