Re: Thoughts on the Contributing page

> On 29 Jan 2019, at 8:14 pm, Tobias Dammers wrote: > > The current Newcomers' Guide uses the current Makefile workflow, but > this is on a fast track to deprecation - but then, I doubt Hadrian has > seen enough exposure yet to use for a good beginner-friendly "Just > Works" guide. I'm leaning t

Re: Request for comments on dry-run Trac -> GitLab migration

> On 5 Feb 2019, at 3:06 am, Ben Gamari wrote: > > TL;DR. Have a look at this [2] test import of GHC's Trac tickets. Tell us > what issues you find. > First up, it’s utterly amazing to me that this is importable and with all links transferred and syntax highlighting and whatnot! so grea

Re: GItLab commenting

> On 14 Feb 2019, at 8:38 pm, Simon Peyton Jones via ghc-devs > wrote: > > Friends > > In reviewing MR!361, I wanted to point out that a Note on line 1481 of a file > needed rewriting. But the patch only modified lines 236 or so. How can I > get it to display line 1481? (Or, more simply,

Distributed local dev builds

Hi all, I have several fairly high-spec machines on my network where I usually build GHC, and I was wondering if it was easy/trivial/possible to set up a distributed build where it farmed out some of the compute work to the other machines? I seem to need to build from scratch somewhat often whe

Re: GItLab commenting

> On 18 Feb 2019, at 8:22 pm, Simon Peyton Jones wrote: > > Go to the source code that you want to refer to, (Repository… Files for > example, or even within an MR itself)… and you’ll notice if you hover on the > LHS of any source code, next to the line numbers, that it has a little link > ic

Re: Newcomers' Guide to GHC Development

Hi, Pretty glad someone’s updating the guide! The updated version could be improved by shaping it into clearer sections because we’d like newcomers to feel like it’s light and easy. Layers is a great way to achieve this. The first time I ran through the task list (not very long ago), it felt l

Wiki search & pages

Hi, When I started this message, I couldn't find the commentary in the wiki any more. Also, when I try to search with the “search or jump to” box, it sits on “Loading” for quite a while, then I get impatient (after 20 seconds or so), and click off it, but the drop down box doesn’t go away, so

Wiki Diagrams

Hello again, I just also noticed that the diagrams for the compiler pipeline seem to have disappeared. I refer to those diagrams all the time when I’m working on GHC, so I’d really like it if they could come back somehow. Julian ___ ghc-devs mailing l

Re: Wiki search & pages

Wow! thank you so much for such a detailed reply, Ben. Makes me wish there was some way you could link to a blog entry of the current ongoing stuff and just write it down once in there as it happens rather than have to repeat it whenever someone asks to save you effort of repetition, but maybe

Re: MR template text

Hi Simon, list et al, I’ve only contributed a couple of times, but I personally found the checklist invaluable to guide me (and remind me of) what needed to be done in total. In addition, giving folks a checklist that they can actually check off gives us a common set of agreed upon things that

Re: MR template text

udge (or even write) text like this. > > Could you possibly have a go at editing the draft I sent so that you think it > has the right tone and content? The current one is not working well. Your > draft will almost certainly be better than mine. > > Simon > > From:

Re: What changed between GHC 8.8 and 8.10 that could cause this?

Hi, I don’t know enough about what Clash does to comment really, but it sounds like it’s to do with my work on enabling multiple linker instances in https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/merge_requests/388 — maybe reading through that or