[Haskell-cafe] Announcing the GHC Bug Sweep

2009-11-16 Thread Simon Marlow
Help us weed the GHC ticket database, and get a warm fuzzy feeling from contributing to Haskell core technology! There are currently ~750 tickets against GHC. Many of them have not been looked at in months or years. Often when I go through old tickets I find easy targets: bugs that have

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Announcing the GHC Bug Sweep

2009-11-16 Thread Roman Cheplyaka
Cool, I'm in! (Also inspired by [1]this post by Erik de Castro Lopo) It would be nice to keep track of participants somewhere, so that each of us knows he's not alone :) 1. http://www.mega-nerd.com/erikd/Blog/CodeHacking/DDC/hacking_ddc.html * Simon Marlow marlo...@gmail.com [2009-11-16

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Announcing the GHC Bug Sweep

2009-11-16 Thread Michael Lesniak
Hello, I'm also interested and find Roman's idea about a wiki-page for tracking motivating. So the idea we have is this: do an incremental sweep of the whole database, starting from the oldest tickets.  Check each one, and try to make some progress on it.  If we get enough momentum going we