[xmonad] RFC: XMonad.Prompt.ConfirmPrompt module

Carsten Mattner carstenmattner at gmail.com
Wed Mar 11 12:07:39 UTC 2015


Ideally we could use Phabricator instance on haskell.org for Xmonad
to have a proper code review (+extra) tool to avoid Github's super
simplistic and insufficient review system that doesn't even preserve
patch history.

On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 1:05 PM, Carsten Mattner
<carstenmattner at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 7:33 PM, Antoine Beaupre wrote:
>> On 2015-03-10 14:17:15, adam vogt wrote:
>>> Antoine,
>>>
>>> You've done enough (I've recorded a patch and put it into contrib).
>>>
>>> Next time you could follow:
>>> https://wiki.haskell.org/Xmonad/xmonad_development_tutorial which goes over
>>> how to record a patch.
>>
>> I admit I was scared to get into darcs again. :)
>
> I don't have a problem with Darcs myself but I'm open to change
> my mind regarding Mercurial or Git migration even though
> I was against it the last time it was suggested here.
>
> If a migration happens it should host the git repo on git.haskell.org,
> googlecode.com (where the issue tracker is) and wherever else,
> but a Github monoculture is dangerous and a crazybad idea.
> Fossil does it right with integrating tickets and docs in the repo
> but implementation details are not ideal. Github culture removes the
> D in DVCS for monetary and Facebook'ish lockin reasons
> and it's bad for everybody but Github.com shareholders.
>
> Do we know how many contributors were put off by Darcs to not
> submit a patch and should do migrate or Mercurial or Git?


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