Can we move bytestring to github?

Ivan Lazar Miljenovic ivan.miljenovic at gmail.com
Tue Feb 12 08:49:00 CET 2013


On 12 February 2013 18:34, Milan Straka <fox at ucw.cz> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>> -----Original message-----
>> From: Bryan O'Sullivan <bos at serpentine.com>
>> Sent: 11 Feb 2013, 20:15
>>
>> 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.
>
> +1 here.
>
> For containers, this was a good step -- we got several contributions
> since moving to github. I believe many people are more familiar with
> github than darcs.

Isn't this an apples vs oranges comparison though? ;-)

>
> Cheers,
> Milan
>
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