proposal: separate lists for ghc-cvs commits and ghc-dev chatter

Ian Lynagh ian at well-typed.com
Fri Dec 7 22:07:01 CET 2012


On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 09:15:06PM +0000, Simon Marlow wrote:
> On 06/12/12 17:04, Ian Lynagh wrote:
> >
> >It's true that we do give e-mailing it as a (less preferred) way for
> >users to submit a bug on
> >     http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/ReportABug
> >but I wonder if we shouldn't change that. It's rare that we get a bug
> >report e-mailed, and normally we ultimately end up creating a trac
> >ticket for it anyway. I'm sure that people who really want to submit a
> >bug report and for whatever reason can't use trac will e-mail it
> >somewhere sensible.
> 
> +1.  ghc-bugs used to be for user-generated bug reports, but now it
> is almost exclusively Trac-generated emails. I don't think anything
> is gained by suggesting that people email bug reports any more.

I've removed that option from ReportABug.


Thanks
Ian




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