If we loop this discussion back to the original post. There is a suggestion in there which seems to be what you are looking for.
> Have a GHC StackOverflow on haskell.org (Jacob Zalewski [email protected] > offers to do this! – thank you). It has a useful new Documentation feature. > Eg this would be good for “how do I look up a RdrName to get a Name… there > seem to be six different functions that do that”. It is also probably lost that I said there was a phabricator module 'ponder' which gives this kind of functionality so it should be quick and easy to setup. Matt On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 9:23 AM, Harendra Kumar <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 25 September 2016 at 12:48, Joachim Breitner <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> > It will be great to have something like that. Something that you >> > figure out digging at ghc trac wiki pages, mailing lists, google >> > search etc will be a few minutes job for a mentor. It may be a bit >> > taxing on the mentors but they can limit how many newbies they are >> > mentoring and also breed new mentors to keep the cycle going. >> >> I hope and assume that already now that every possible contributor who >> has questions like this and asks (e.g. on irc) will get a helpful >> answer. Is that insufficient? > > > Maybe. Though irc seems to be quite popular among Haskell community and > other open source communities I have never been able to utilize it somehow. > I don't know if there is something wrong with it or with me. I installed an > irc client logged into it once or twice but never got hooked to it. Such > questions on ghc-devs maybe a nuisance for a lot of other people or at least > that's what I felt as a newbie. I usually tend to do a lot of homework > before sending a question to ghc-devs. Maybe a ghc-newbies like mailing list > (one more list!) can give the impression of a lower barrier for sending > stupid or operational questions. > > -harendra > > _______________________________________________ > ghc-devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs > _______________________________________________ ghc-devs mailing list [email protected] http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs
