Re: [wxhaskell-devel] liberal commit access?

[Dave T. <duk...@gm...>]

On 28 November 2011 11:37, Jeremy O'Donoghue <jer...@gm...> wrote:
> On 21 November 2011 18:31, Dave Tapley <duk...@gm...> wrote:
>>
>> Not surprisingly, I am in favour of this :)
>
> I have spent a while thinking about this, as it has considerable
> ramifications.
>
> I don't think we have ever seen a case of an irresponsible committer (could
> such a thing even exist in the Haskell community?), so I'm in favour.
>
>>
>> Given that there aren't going to be any more 2.8.x releases of
>> wxWidgets, I'm happy to say:
>> If you want a stable(ish) wxHaskell, then use the current hackage
>> release along with the last stable wxWidgets release (2.8.12).
>> If you want bleeding edge wxHaskell, then pull from code.haskell.org
>> along with the latest dev wxWidgets release (currently 2.9.2).
>>
>> I should note one more time that I'm quite happy to stop supporting
>> pre 2.9.x support now, I don't know if anyone has any objection to
>> this?
>
> The caveat is that I would like to do one more release on Hackage
> supporting  2.8.x, as we have a number of valuable bugfixes in the devel
> branches which would benefit users of 2.8.x. I will try to do this over then
> next two weeks, so my proposal is...
>
> Patches committed until the end of 2011 should be verified on a wxWidgets
> 2.8.x release. From 1st Jan 2012, 2.8.x is dropped, and we'll bump the
> version number from 0.13.x to 0.14.x.
>
> How does this sound?

Well it's the most sensible new year's resolution I've heard thus far :)

I shall continue pushing to my >= wx-2.9 repo on darcs den, in to
which I'm aiming to get all the patches which are sent out on the
mailing list as well.

Dave,

>
> Jeremy
>