Infrastructure & Communication

[M Farkas-Dyck]

On 29/04/2016, wren romano <wren at community.haskell.org> wrote:
> For general discussions I think this mailing list is best. I'm cool
> for keeping irc as a side channel for hashing things out more
> interactively, but it's all to easy to miss things there so I think
> it's best kept as a side channel not a main one.

> I like (something like) GitHub issues for tracking the exact content
> of proposed changes and their (direct) commentary.

> As far as wiki stuff goes, to be honest I'm kinda against it. I see
> how it might could be helpful as a sort of staging ground prior to
> actual RFCs, or as an edited synopsis of email discussion; but in my
> experience the wiki proposals for Haskell changes tend to get very
> crufty and hard to follow after a few changes have been made.

I agree on all these points.

I lean slightly towards Trac rather than Github myself, being a little
wary of enshrining other-party-hosted SaaS in a communal effort like
this, but i shan't make a fuss about it. I'm slightly against
Phabricator as installing PHP to work on Haskell feels very wrong.