Committer list [was: Re: NOTICE: Gitolite migration is complete.]
Richard Eisenberg
eir at cis.upenn.edu
Sun Aug 18 23:30:36 CEST 2013
Would it be sensible to add links to personal academic (or other) websites? I think that might be more helpful to the casual viewer than email addresses, actually.
Richard
On Aug 18, 2013, at 11:50 AM, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
> Great. Personally I think "Platform maintainers" would be better under TeamGHC, since it's a kind of ownership of an area.
>
> Everyone: fill in your details on TeamGHC.
>
> Simon
>
> | -----Original Message-----
> | From: Austin Seipp [mailto:aseipp at pobox.com]
> | Sent: 18 August 2013 16:47
> | To: Simon Peyton-Jones
> | Cc: Austin Seipp; ghc-devs at haskell.org
> | Subject: Re: Committer list [was: Re: NOTICE: Gitolite migration is complete.]
> |
> | I thought about the redundancy too, and I'm all for streamlining the
> | wiki. I went ahead and reorganized stuff a bit.
> |
> | The 'Contributor' page is now a stub that leads you to:
> |
> | - The code owners page, which covers the high level roles people take
> | on: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/CodeOwners
> | - The GHC Team page, which covers individuals in particular and
> | joining up: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/TeamGHC
> |
> | I decided to put the platform maintainers with the rest of the
> | committers on the team page and not the owner page, since the format
> | comes off more as "Individual people to contact", as opposed to "the
> | general roles people take on." Although I'm open to disagreement.
> |
> | I also went ahead and filled out most of the remaining details for the
> | existing team. (You are all free to remove your information as you
> | wish of course.)
> |
> | PS: I also realized that Trac won't show emails if you're not logged
> | in, so this may help prevent some measure of spam. A lot of it seems
> | to have gone away recently, post-server move.
> |
> |
> | On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 8:45 AM, Simon Peyton-Jones
> | <simonpj at microsoft.com> wrote:
> | > Thanks Austin. (All on ghc-devs: do chime in.)
> | >
> | > * There is some overlap with the [wiki:Contributors] page, but I think that
> | > serve a purpose.
> | > - [wiki:Committers] is person-focused
> | > - [wiki:Contributors] is role-focused
> | > If that's our intent, perhaps we should move all the person-focused stuff to
> | > Committters (and re-title it), leaving only the role-focused stuff on
> | Contributors
> | > (and re-title that too).
> | >
> | > Does that make sense? We certainly don't want a duplicate list of committers
> | > on both.
> | >
> | > * I think it's right to list email addresses (though please yell if you object).
> | > We do need to know how to get in touch with committers.
> | >
> | > * I like knowing real names, locations, and affiliations. We are an embodied
> | > group of colleagues, not avatars. Again, yell if you object.
> | >
> | > If there's a consensus on these latter two points we should maybe say in the
> | "what it means to be a committer" preamble, so that future committers know.
> | >
> | > Simon
> | >
> | > | -----Original Message-----
> | > | From: Austin Seipp [mailto:aseipp at pobox.com]
> | > | Sent: 17 August 2013 04:42
> | > | To: ghc-devs at haskell.org
> | > | Cc: Simon Peyton-Jones
> | > | Subject: Committer list [was: Re: NOTICE: Gitolite migration is complete.]
> | > |
> | > | Sounds good to me. I've found the same info useful. In fact, just
> | > | yesterday I had added the list of committers I assembled to the
> | > | Contributors page:
> | > |
> | > | http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Contributors
> | > |
> | > | I've gone ahead and created a Committers page with more info. It also
> | > | lets people know who to contact (me) if they would like access, and
> | > | should help people find out who to talk to when they need help.
> | > |
> | > | http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Committers
> | > |
> | > | I went ahead and filled out most of the details on the people I'm
> | > | aware of, except for email. I'm not sure what you'd like to publicly
> | > | put out there on Trac.
> | > |
> | > | Developers - If you'd like, please take the time to fill in your email
> | > | and amend anything I got wrong (e.g. I just put pretty much everyone's
> | > | "committer date" as this month.)
> | > |
> | > | (Also, forgive me for looking into most peoples affiliations and
> | > | listing them here, but it does help individual identification - and
> | > | it's a decently diverse set of places, which is neat in its own
> | > | right!)
> | > |
> | > | On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 5:54 AM, Simon Peyton-Jones
> | > | <simonpj at microsoft.com> wrote:
> | > | >
> | > | > Herbert, Austin, Simon
> | > | >
> | > | > Thanks for taking charge of our git repos. Very very helpful!
> | > | >
> | > | > On the question of committers, there's always the danger that we give
> | people
> | > | commit permission, and several years later they've gone silent and we can
> | barely
> | > | remember who or why. I wonder if we should have a "Committers" wiki page,
> | > | with a bullet for each person in this format:
> | > | >
> | > | > * Simon Peyton Jones, Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK. Trac: simonpj;
> | > | email: simonpj at microsoft.com. Added as a committer June 2013. Main
> | areas of
> | > | interest: renamer, type checker, optimiser.
> | > | >
> | > | > I often have trouble connecting people's Trac identity with their email; and
> | it's
> | > | quite helpful to know which country people are in and where they work.
> | > | >
> | > | > Do you think that would make sense? We could also establish the
> | convention
> | > | that if you don’t commit for a year you'll lose commit access; though it can be
> | re-
> | > | activated on request.
> | > | >
> | > | > Simon
> | > | >
> | > | > | -----Original Message-----
> | > | > | From: ghc-devs [mailto:ghc-devs-bounces at haskell.org] On Behalf Of
> | Austin
> | > | > | Seipp
> | > | > | Sent: 09 August 2013 23:20
> | > | > | To: ghc-devs at haskell.org
> | > | > | Subject: NOTICE: Gitolite migration is complete.
> | > | > |
> | > | > | All,
> | > | > |
> | > | > | Push access is now restored and Gitolite is in place! This brings some
> | > | > | nice updates:
> | > | > |
> | > | > | * There's now access to the 'git' protocol for cloning anonymously.
> | > | > | This lets you clone even the biggest repos extremely quickly, and is
> | > | > | the fastest method for getting a copy of the tree.
> | > | > | * Firewalled? Cloning over HTTP now uses Smart HTTP support for Git,
> | > | > | meaning it should be faster too!
> | > | > | * We will soon have Gitweb available, once our git.haskell.org CNAME
> | > | > | is in place. Eventually we'd like something akin to
> | > | > | https://git.kernel.org/cgit/ possibly.
> | > | > | * None of you have shell access to ghc.haskell.org anymore (well,
> | > | > | this is a nice update for us administrators :)
> | > | > |
> | > | > | The following people have had their keys re-added, and should be able
> | > | > | to push and pull from the new setup.
> | > | > |
> | > | > | * Andreas Voellmy
> | > | > | * Austin Seipp
> | > | > | * Ben Lippmeier
> | > | > | * Iavor Diatchki
> | > | > | * David Terei
> | > | > | * David Waern
> | > | > | * Dimitrios Vytiniotis
> | > | > | * Duncan Coutts
> | > | > | * Edsko de Vries
> | > | > | * Erik de Castro Lopo
> | > | > | * Edward Yang
> | > | > | * Geoffrey Mainland
> | > | > | * Gabor Greif
> | > | > | * Herbert Valerio Riedel
> | > | > | * Ian Lynagh
> | > | > | * Ilya Sergey
> | > | > | * Johan Tibell
> | > | > | * José Pedro Magalhães
> | > | > | * Jan Stolarek
> | > | > | * Manuel Chakravarty
> | > | > | * Max Bolingbroke
> | > | > | * Nicholas Frisby
> | > | > | * Paolo Capriotti
> | > | > | * Richard Eisenberg
> | > | > | * Roman Leshchinskiy
> | > | > | * Ross Patterson
> | > | > | * Simon Hengel
> | > | > | * Simon Marlow
> | > | > | * Simon Peyton Jones
> | > | > | * Thomas Schilling
> | > | > |
> | > | > | The following people still have shell access for any administrative
> | > | > | needs:
> | > | > |
> | > | > | * Austin Seipp (and the remaining haskell.org infrastructure team.)
> | > | > | * Herbert Valerio Riedel
> | > | > | * Ian Lynagh
> | > | > |
> | > | > | I have undoubtedly missed some people. Please talk to me and we'll get
> | > | > | you set up!
> | > | > |
> | > | > | If you're a developer, please read about developer changes here:
> | > | > |
> | > | > | * http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/GitolitePlan#Developerchanges
> | > | > |
> | > | > | TL;DR: if you have an old tree, run the following four commands from
> | > | > | the root to fix the push/pull URLs.
> | > | > |
> | > | > | $ git checkout master
> | > | > | $ git pull https://github.com/ghc/ghc.git master
> | > | > | $ ./sync-all -r ssh://git@ghc.haskell.org remote set-url origin
> | > | > | $ ./sync-all -r ssh://git@ghc.haskell.org remote set-url --push origin
> | > | > |
> | > | > | The reason you must get the latest-copy of ./sync-all is because
> | > | > | Herbert made some last minute bug fixes. Technically, you could just
> | > | > | download the latest copy and run it directly, but this is easier and
> | > | > | fairly straight forward.
> | > | > |
> | > | > | Please direct any concerns to me, like if you need something off the
> | > | > | server, need your shell account back, or need commit access. Over the
> | > | > | next few days, I'll be cleaning up the wiki - updating references and
> | > | > | guides on how to check out the source for users and developer. I also
> | > | > | might be sending out some emails with questions while we refine the
> | > | > | new setup in the next few days (there were some Trac integration
> | > | > | changes.)
> | > | > |
> | > | > | Also, a gigantic applause for Herbert, who did a lot of the work here!
> | > | > |
> | > | > | --
> | > | > | Regards,
> | > | > | Austin - PGP: 4096R/0x91384671
> | > | > |
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> | > |
> | > |
> | > | --
> | > | Regards,
> | > | Austin - PGP: 4096R/0x91384671
> | >
> |
> |
> |
> | --
> | Regards,
> | Austin - PGP: 4096R/0x91384671
>
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