[Haskell-cafe] How to start with GHC development?

[Jason Dagit]

On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 6:10 AM, Eric Rochester <erochest at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm in the same boat, with just a little less reading. :)
>
> It seems to be that if we want to encourage participation in GHC
> development, the first step is to lower the barrier of entry.
>
> One way to do that would be to have a page (wiki, perhaps) that has a
> reading list for learning about GHC. I'd guess that there are a lot of
> people like Janek and myself who want to contribute, even a little, and
> just aren't sure about where to start. We're happy to do our homework, but
> we need some assignments, so to speak.
>

The GHC developers have created a list to help with this, look at the easy
bugs and tasks:
http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/GettingStarted



>
> Another idea is to have a list of open tasks grouped by how difficult they
> will be and how much knowledge of Haskell and GHC will be required.
>

They already thought of this and did it :)

Jason
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