[core libraries] RE: Core libraries bug tracker

[Simon Peyton Jones]

If you don't mind the extra traffic in the ghc trac, I'm open to the plan to work there.

OK great.

Let’s agree that:

·        The “owner” of a Core Libraries ticket is the person responsible for progressing it – or “Core Libraries Committee” as one possibility.

·        The “component” should identify the ticket as belonging to the core libraries committee, not GHC.  We have a bunch of components like “libraries/base”, “libraries/directory”, etc, but I’m sure that doesn’t cover all the core libraries, and even if it did, it’s probably too fine grain.  I suggest having just “Core Libraries”.


Actions:

·        Edward: update the Core Libraries home page (where is that?) to point people to the Trac, tell them how to correctly submit a ticket, etc?

·        Edward: send email to tell everyone about the new plan.

·        Austin: add the same guidance to the GHC bug tracker.

·        Austin: add “core libraries committee” as something that can be an owner.

·        Austin: change the “components” list to replace all the “libraires/*” stuff with “Core Libraries”.

Thanks

Simon


From: haskell-core-libraries at googlegroups.com [mailto:haskell-core-libraries at googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Edward Kmett
Sent: 19 August 2014 16:23
To: Simon Peyton Jones
Cc: core-libraries-committee at haskell.org; ghc-devs at haskell.org
Subject: Re: [core libraries] RE: Core libraries bug tracker

Hi Simon,

If you don't mind the extra traffic in the ghc trac, I'm open to the plan to work there.

I was talking to Eric Mertens a few days ago about this and he agreed to take lead on getting us set up to actually build tickets for items that go into the libraries@ proposal process, so we have something helping to force us to come to a definitive conclusion rather than letting things trail off.

-Edward

On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 10:31 AM, Simon Peyton Jones <simonpj at microsoft.com<mailto:simonpj at microsoft.com>> wrote:
Edward, and core library colleagues,
Any views on this?  It would be good to make progress.
Thanks
Simon

From: ghc-devs [mailto:ghc-devs-bounces at haskell.org<mailto:ghc-devs-bounces at haskell.org>] On Behalf Of Simon Peyton Jones
Sent: 04 August 2014 16:01
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Subject: Core libraries bug tracker

Edward, and core library colleagues,
This came up in our weekly GHC discussion

•         Does the Core Libraries Committee have a Trac?  Surely, surely you should, else you’ll lose track of issues.

•         Would you like to use GHC’s Trac for the purpose?   Advantages:

o   People often report core library issues on GHC’s Trac anyway, so telling them to move it somewhere else just creates busy-work --- and maybe they won’t bother, which leaves it in our pile.

o   Several of these libraries are closely coupled to GHC, and you might want to milestone some library tickets with an upcoming GHC release

•         If so we’d need a canonical way to identify tickets as CLC issues.  Perhaps by making “core-libraries” the owner?  Or perhaps the “Component” field?

•         Some core libraries (e.g. random) have a maintainer that isn’t the committee.  So that maintainer should be the owner of the ticket. Or the CLC might like a particular member to own a ticket.  Either way, that suggest using the “Component” field to identify CLC tickets

•         Or maybe you want a Trac of your own?
The underlying issue from our end is that we’d like a way to

•         filter out tickets that you are dealing with

•         and be sure you are dealing with them

•         without losing track of milestones… i.e. when building a release we want to be sure that important tickets are indeed fixed before releasing
Simon
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