Cabal hack night suggestions

[Johan Tibell]

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.80 at 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.tibell at 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.80 at 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
>>>
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>>
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