Ian Lynagh:
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 10:10:31AM +0100, Malcolm Wallace wrote:
On 12 Aug 2008, at 01:35, Manuel M T Chakravarty wrote:
Ah, good point! Changing ghc to git means *all* developers of boot
libraries need to use git *regardless* of what repo format the boot
libraries are in. After all, they need to validate against the
current ghc head before pushing.
It is worth pointing out that I *never* validate against ghc head
when
I commit to the core libraries.
Also, all of the people who send us patches don't need to validate
(and
I suspect most of them don't), as we validate the patches before
pushing
them.
Well, its up to you whether you want to validate for other people, but
I don't think that is the right policy. Everybody (including Malcolm)
should validate.
If you contribute code to the linux kernel, comprehensive testing of
the code is a requirement, too. It's not as if it were a strange
requirement of GHC as an open source project to ask people to test
their code properly. In fact, I even tell my first year students that
they should test their code properly. Maybe we should hand books to
introductory software engineering out to potential ghc and library
contributors. (Sorry to get cynic, but I can't believe that we are
even discussing that.)
Manuel
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