Can we archive this repo?

[doyougnu]

I'd like to archive this repo and use https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc.nix instead. Thereby making the gitlab version the "main" version for development and patches.

Why? Several reasons:

• The response time for this repo has lagged over time cc @MangoIV
• This has made it hard for GHC devs to keep dependency versions in sync with what we run on GHC's CI.
• As this is for ghc, I'd like to be able to point the GHC wiki and documents to a repo that is inside the GHC project on gitlab. cc @supersven

[bgamari]

For what it's worth this I also aimed to migrate this repo to GitLab in the past but was distracted before the job was finished. I would welcome this move.

[MangoIV]

I was planning to do this. (Move to ghc gitlab, I already brought it up to date but have yet to set up a proper CI)

I would maintain this repo for the time being but I’m not maintainer for this repo.

[MangoIV]

Sadly I think the CI here on GitHub has become useless as it cannot build GHC anymore (I think the container runs out of memory)

[bgamari]

I put up https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc.nix/-/merge_requests/4 as a starting point for GitLab CI.

[MangoIV]

See also !3 in the same repo…

[bgamari]

Ahh, very good. I'll close mine in that case.

[MangoIV]

@bgamari do you think we should merge the PRs whose CI currently fail but are verified working before moving to the new repo?

[MangoIV]

#186 #188 #189 (haven’t looked at #190 yet but perhaps also that one)

[MangoIV]

I can reopen mine about modularization as that’s a bit more of an effort anyway and I wanna redo it properly at some point, as well

[supersven]

IMHO we could switch to Gitlab. The main reason why ghc.nix is hosted on GitHub is likely because it started here at Phabricator times..

[doyougnu]

do you think we should merge the PRs whose CI currently fail but are verified working before moving to the new repo?

I think we should just remake them on the new repo. Most of these are really trivial.

I'll take #188 #189 and #190, #188 and #190 are mine and #189 is just a matter of adding the packages.

But basically I'd rather just migrate now and clean up later.

[alpmestan]

Arriving a bit after everything took place, but yes, I was also in favor of throwing this repo on gitlab early on but never really followed up.

[doyougnu]

cc @bgamari @MangoIV

I've opened https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc.nix/-/merge_requests/6 which migrates #188 #189 #190

[MangoIV]

Thank you, I’ll leave a review but I think I’ll need a review on the CI PR by bgamari first (s.t. You can have CI on the PR)

[sgraf812]

I think the migration is complete, no?

[MangoIV]

More or less. I think it would be neat to set up a mirror here on GitHub. But idk if this repo is the right place.

[alpmestan]

I suppose a github mirror for ghc.nix would belong next to GHC's own github mirror.