How to start with GHC development?

[Jan Stolarek]

> So to some extent, to work on it probably does require bashing against some theory for
> a while.
I don't mind that, but on the other hand I don't want to get stuck *only* in theory.

> It also depends on the part of the pipeline that you're interested in.
> There's quite a difference between, say, the typechecker, and the codegen
> stages, and they require rather different knowledge.
I'm aware of that. Right now I'd like to get a general understanding of the project. Later I was 
thinking about looking into concurrency and parallelism and perhaps at some point in the future 
at the typechecker (I guess this requires lots of theoretical background I don't have).

> And this is where I'm a little stuck too. I have a reasonably good picture
> of GHC's pipeline, having worked on it for my master's thesis, and I'd like
> to get more involved and possibly even contribute something useful. But I'm
> not sure where to start. 
Well, that's a bit discouraging - if you worked on it in master's thesis and still don't know 
where to start then it this is probably even harder than I suspected.

Janek