Why base library changes are only discussed on GHC issue tracker and not on the libraries@ list?

[Carter Schonwald]

Respectfully: some of us like mailing lists for complicated discussions :)

The issue here is deviation from processs that support a wider range of
participants with different accessibility needs and varying levels of
volunteer time.

More over, a mailing list is easier for curious parties to subscribe to and
filter to a dedicated inbox.  Have you ever tried doing robust mailbox
filters for GitHub or gitlab? It’s pretty tricky without creating a
firehose of all repo events unless you’re in a group that’s always tagged.

Any ticket tagged core libraries on gitlab needs to have a corresponding
email to this list for folks who aren’t administratively in that
notification group. Or needs to link to a thread here motivating it.

I’m on that notification list for gitlab because current clc folks wanted
me to continue helping out, but that’s not a scalable open participation
model.

On Wed, Jul 7, 2021 at 12:41 PM Sandy Maguire <sandy at sandymaguire.me> wrote:

> At risk of being the messenger who gets shot....
>
> As an outsider, it seems very reasonable to me to file a bug against the
> issue tracker for a project whose code I think should be changed. For
> better or worse, this is the way that 99% of software projects work.
> Expecting everyone in the community to know that they _shouldn't_ be filing
> bugs against the issue tracker is a losing battle. I'm more hooked in than
> most, and even I didn't know this.
>
> I can empathize with things not being done the way you'd like to be, but
> the claim that things happening on the GHC tracker are done "in private" is
> silly. The gitlab tracker is 10x more accessible, and the lack of community
> engagement on the mailing lists speaks volumes.
>
> And besides, nobody wants to be on a mailing list anyway. It's a terrible
> experience with weird branching and no persistence, and while there are
> archives, it's an extremely unpleasant thing to try to spelunk through.
>
> Best,
> Sandy
>
> On Wed, Jul 7, 2021 at 8:52 AM Henning Thielemann <
> lemming at henning-thielemann.de> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Wed, 7 Jul 2021, Oleg Grenrus wrote:
>>
>> > For example
>> >
>> > - https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/issues/20044 ByteArray migration
>> > from primitive to base
>> > - https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/issues/20027 Changing Show
>> String
>> > behavior
>> >
>> > Why they are discussed "in private", I thought libraries@ list is where
>> > such changes should be discussed.
>>
>> I think so, too, and I missed them as well.
>> _______________________________________________
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>>
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