Notes from Ben's "contribute to ghc" discussion

[Eric Seidel]

I found a list of StackOverflow clones. (I don't know how difficult it
is to get an official StackExchange site, or if we would even want that)

http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2267/stack-exchange-clones


On Fri, Sep 23, 2016, at 18:44, Simon Peyton Jones via ghc-devs wrote:
> Friends
>
> Here are the notes I took from session 2 of the Haskell Implementors
> Meeting.  The bolding is my choice of emphasis.
>
> Simon
>
>
> *        Doc bugs.    Two kinds
>
> o   Typos.   Friction stops me
>
> o   Explanations needed e.g. read/show
>
> *        Lightweight pushes
>
> *        Make user manual into its own repo, to make it easier to take
> pull requests.  But that makes it harder when making
> synchronised changes
> to GHC and user manual.
>
> *        Auto-push: Ability to push to Phab and have it committed
> automatically if it validates.
>
> *        Style guides.  Is having a defined style solving a problem we
> don't really have?  One piece of guidance: adhere to the style of the
> surrounding code.  Low priority.
>
> *        Docker images.   We should have one.
>
> *        Remove old documentation!
>
> *        Cross compilation is difficult.
>
> *        Have a GHC StackOverflow on haskell.org   (Jacob Zalewski
> jakzale at gmail.com<mailto:jakzale at gmail.com> 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".
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