Hi David, Thanks for the bug triage, I will definitely take a look at those.
Let me know if there's anything I can do to make it a more productive session next time. Cheers, Johan On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 1:31 PM, David Laing <dave.laing...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > The hack night has been and gone. It was fun, but I felt I probably could > have been more productive. > > I've found some possibly closeable bugs and some possibly duplicate bugs. > > Possibly closeable: > - 291 > - 760 > Possible duplicate / at least related: > - 469 and 1100 > - 172, 674, 1550 > - 189, 510, 527, 1585 > > I got partway through working on #674 before I found #1550 and saw that > work is being done there. > > There are a few bugs / enhancements I'm keen to have a go at, but I'll > take that part of the discussion to github. > > Cheers, > > Dave > > > On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 10:53 PM, Johan Tibell <johan.tib...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Hi David, >> >> Great to here that you're going to hack on cabal. We need all the >> contributors we can get! >> >> The general roadmap for 1.20 is here: >> http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/cabal-devel/2013-September/009533.html >> >> The "Do the right thing automatically" section is probably the most >> newbie friendly. >> >> Other than that we really need to get the bug tracker under control. This >> means triaging bugs and fixing those that need fixing and closing the rest. >> I took a stab at this a while ago but if you want something to get your >> feet wet, I suggest grabbing something that looks interesting from the bug >> tracker. >> >> As for hacking on cabal, I suggest using sandboxes, like so: >> >> cd cabal/cabal-install >> # only once: >> cabal sandbox init >> cabal sandbox add-source ../Cabal >> cabal install -j --only-dep >> # to (re)build: >> cabal build >> >> -- Johan >> >> >> On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 1:50 PM, David Laing <dave.laing...@gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> There are a few people in my local FP meetup group looking into doing >>> some semi-regular Haskell hack nights, and we're hoping to target various >>> tools and libraries in the Haskell ecosystem so that we can give back a >>> little while having fun and honing our skills. >>> >>> Cabal is pretty high on our list of things to hack on, and we're hoping >>> to start mid next week. >>> >>> I'm sure we'll be able to click through github issues and submit pull >>> requests on our own, but I thought I'd ask if anyone has any thoughts on >>> areas that would be good to look at that might sit in a sweet spot of being >>> both beneficial to Cabal and accessible to newcomers to the code. >>> >>> Does anyone have any thoughts? >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> Dave >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> cabal-devel mailing list >>> cabal-devel@haskell.org >>> http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cabal-devel >>> >>> >> >
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