On 1/3/17 6:32 PM, Matthew Pickering wrote:
The version field is not very useful as there are only two active
branches at once. Instead we want a project which marks tickets which
apply to the 8.0.2 branch for example. Tickets which refer to ancient
versions of GHC should be closed if they can't be reproduced with
HEAD. It is also not used very often, only updated on about 600
tickets.
I strongly disagree here. It is not uncommon to have a user report a bug
against an old version of GHC. When the reporter sets a version of, say,
7.6.3 these days, we know that the bug is quite clearly old and may
already be fixed.
I'm also skeptical about how useful the component field is. I've never
personally used it and it is not accurate for the majority of tickets.
If someone disagrees then please say but it is really not used very
much.
I use the Template Haskell component field to quickly search for all TH
tickets. That said, the line between Component and Keyword is very murky
and ought to be straightened out. I'm thus not against scrapping
Component, but I wouldn't want data loss during the conversion: an
updated Component field should be retained as a tag.
Richard
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