[wxhaskell-devel] GitHub repo?

[Jeremy O'D. <jer...@gm...>]

Hi developers,

I wanted to canvas opinion about moving wxHaskell development from darcs on
code.haskell.org to (git, obviously) on GitHub.

Potential advantages:

   - Easier for new committers to commit code
   - GitHub provides some pretty decent tools (integrated issue tracker,
   particularly)
   - Easier handling of the wxWidgets 2.8/2.9 branches. I'm pretty
   impressed at the way git does this (and was not impressed by merging Dave
   Tapley's darcsden branch back into the code.haskell.org mainline using
   darcs - this turned out to be a completely manual operation which was no
   fun at all).

Downsides:

   - I personally find darcs easier than git, and as Haskellers we should
   promote darcs if possible
   - Possibly a new tool for old hands to learn

I would say that a move is probably only worthwhile if we think that it
would help to attract new developer to the project.

I have put up an experimental project at
https://github.com/jodonoghue/wxHaskell which gives an idea how the two
branches would look.

One option might be to use wxHaskell as a test case for darcs-bridge, in
which case we could allow commits to darcs or Github, but I'll leave it to
Eric to decide whether darcs bridge is ready for such a use case.

Regards

Jeremy