Can we move bytestring to github?

Vincent Hanquez tab at snarc.org
Tue Feb 12 08:56:29 CET 2013


On 02/12/2013 04:15 AM, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:
> Hi, Duncan -
>
> The subject says it all. I'd like to contribute some patches to bytestring,
> but darcs is a big wall at this point, and the package has no bug tracker.
> I'd like to move it under http://github.com/haskell, a place that has
> served several of our core packages well.
>
> I know you're fond of darcs, but it's well established by experience that
> we'll get many more contributions (both patches and problem reports) on
> github.
>
> So... pretty pretty please.

+1

I would prefer everyone to use their DVCS of choice, but it came up many 
times for me to try to get to the source or a bug tracker for 
bytestring, and I think github would make it much better for a canonical 
place to contribute and watch changes/issues.

-- 
Vincent



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