On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 4:45 PM, Jan Stolarek <[email protected]>wrote:
> > relatedly: how are the 'low haning fruit" tickets on that page > generated? I > > can't see how > Arbitrarily :-) Any developer can add a "low hanging fruit" ticket if he > judges that: a) ticket is > relatively easy for a beginner to tackle and; b) is willing to aid a > beginner in working on that > ticket (though this is not strictly necessary if one judges that support > from ghc-devs will be > sufficient). For example I added #8308 because I can guide a beginner > through implementation of > that ticket (at least I believe so). > > > I think it’d be great to reduce the barrier to entry for newcomers, and > would welcome anything > you (or anyone else) can do to help. Thanks! > Yes, reducing barrier for beginners would be a great thing to do (I > remember how frustrating were > my beginnings with GHC) but that would be an investment - meaning that we > would have to put a lot > of effort into it hoping that in the future we will have more developers. > The best thing I could > imagine would be videos presenting implementation of GHC. Something like > that was already > recorded during Hackathons but that vidoes have horrible quality and are > almost impossible to > watch. If we could re-record that with better quality (and more > up-to-date) it would be great. > > I agree that videos might boost the interest in GHC hacking. Maybe if Chris Forno [1] starts hacking on GHC we will see some cool videocasts :) [1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEFETKhhq8w&list=PLxj9UAX4Em-IBXkvcC3MycLlcxyoi7v8B > Janek > > > > > On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 4:26 AM, Daniil Frumin <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > I like that codefirefox.com site! > > > > > > GHC wiki has something similar to Mozilla's introduction page: > > > https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Newcomers > > > > > > > > > On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 12:04 PM, Carter Schonwald < > > > > > > [email protected]> wrote: > > >> Hey All, > > >> I just came across the mozilla firefox "how to get involved in the > dev" > > >> docs > > >> http://codefirefox.com/ and > > >> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6753583and > > >> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/introduction > > >> > > >> One thing I've been very active on lately is trying to figure out how > to > > >> talk more people into trying to help out with ghc. And the firefox > > >> stuff there seems to lay out a great collection of examples of ways to > > >> make it a bit easier / managable to get involved! > > >> > > >> figured it'd be worth sharing > > >> -Carter > > >> > > >> _______________________________________________ > > >> ghc-devs mailing list > > >> [email protected] > > >> http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs > > > > > > -- > > > Sincerely yours, > > > -- Daniil > > > -- Sincerely yours, -- Daniil
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