Committer list [was: Re: NOTICE: Gitolite migration is complete.]
Simon Peyton-Jones
simonpj at microsoft.com
Mon Aug 19 09:43:29 CEST 2013
Good idea! I've added mine, as a link from my name.
Simon
| -----Original Message-----
| From: Richard Eisenberg [mailto:eir at cis.upenn.edu]
| Sent: 18 August 2013 22:31
| To: Simon Peyton-Jones
| Cc: Austin Seipp; ghc-devs at haskell.org
| Subject: Re: Committer list [was: Re: NOTICE: Gitolite migration is
| complete.]
|
| 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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