example of great getting started guide (possible guide to improve it for ghc)

[Daniil Frumin]

On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 4:45 PM, Jan Stolarek <jan.stolarek at p.lodz.pl>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 <difrumin at gmail.com>
> 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 <
> > >
> > > carter.schonwald at gmail.com> 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
> > >>
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> > >
> > > --
> > > Sincerely yours,
> > > -- Daniil
>
>
>


-- 
Sincerely yours,
-- Daniil
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