Can we move bytestring to github?

[Bas van Dijk]

BTW it would be nice to make this repo official by releasing a point
release to hackage which lists the new repo in the cabal file.

Bas

On 7 March 2013 14:00, Gregory Collins <greg at gregorycollins.net> wrote:
> We've gotten one pull request for bytestring there, and speaking for myself,
> the really nice github code review (as well as the fact that I'm subscribed
> to github.com/haskell notifications) has meant that we've gotten at least
> one new pair of eyeballs looking at patches.
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 12:19 PM, Leon Smith <leon.p.smith at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Out of curiousity,  how has the bytestring-github migration progressed?
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 7:45 AM, Ben Millwood <haskell at benmachine.co.uk>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 05:41:47PM +0000, Duncan Coutts wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, 2013-02-11 at 20:15 -0800, 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.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Ah but that's because it has no bugs ;-)
>>>>
>>>> (It actually does have a bug tracker, it's a component in the ghc trac.
>>>> It's true that it doesn't get used much, but then there have been very
>>>> few bugs in recent years.)
>>>
>>>
>>> Crucially, it's not linked from the Hackage page; when I wanted to report
>>> a concern with ByteString I e-mailed the addresses in the bug-reports field
>>> and received no response.
>>>
>>> http://hackage.haskell.org/package/bytestring
>>>
>>> It wasn't terribly important, something about hGetSome being added in a
>>> minor version, but regardless the impression that I got was that there was
>>> nobody paying attention. Moving to Github would fix that but so would just
>>> updating the bug-reports field.
>>>
>>> (Nevertheless, I'm generally in favour of things moving to github since
>>> it reduces the number of user interfaces I have to think about, and reduces
>>> how much I am punished for still not working out how to use darcs.)
>>>
>>> Ben
>>>
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