Drastic Prelude changes imminent

[David Feuer]

Github is not and has never been a focus for GHC development. It seems a
bit odd to separate things into "noise" on Trac and the mailing lists and,
theoretically, "signal" on GitHub. I agree that important community
discussions should not be happening on Phabricator, but they generally
aren't anyway.
On Jan 27, 2015 4:09 PM, "Gabriel Gonzalez" <gabriel439 at gmail.com> wrote:

>  I think that all breaking changes that are approved on this mailing list
> should be migrated to a much more visible Github issue (i.e.
> https://github.com/ghc/ghc) before final approval.  You can still do all
> actual pull requests and coding via Phabricator, but the discussion should
> be on Github, because the barrier for new people to join in on the
> discussion is lower.  You will get a lot more discussion and visibility
> into these changes purely by using Github as the central forum.
>
> This mailing list is not an appropriate forum for discussion for several
> reasons:
>
> A) The volume of email is too high.  Only people who are experts at
> managing their inbox subscribe here.
> B) There is too little signal to noise (for a beginner).  Why would a
> beginner want to join a mailing list that debates such dry topics as
> whether or not to add Data.Intersperse.sequence?
> C) There's no (easy) way to subscribe to (or mute) a particular thread
> (unlike Github where you can easily watch or mute specific issues)
>
> Pretty much everybody on this mailing list is a die-hard Haskell expert
> and that's not representative of the Haskell community at large.  Migrating
> important topics to Github will give us a more representative sampling of
> the community and will also help centralize the discussion better.
>
> On 1/27/15, 12:54 PM, Johan Tibell wrote:
>
>  A point about process: I've been aware of this change for quite some
> time but I wasn't aware of the details (e.g. the changes to Data.List).
> It's easier to judge proposals like this if the complete list of changes
> are listed in some proposal page.
>
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