[Haskell-cafe] Open-source projects for beginning Haskell students?

[Carter Schonwald]

+ 1000,

there are so many widely used niche libs which would greatly benefit from
more examples in their test suites, or which have tractable small
improvement / enhancement  tickets languishing.   Plus most large systems
engineering does involve helping improve preexisting some part of the time.


On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 10:52 PM, Michael Orlitzky <michael at orlitzky.com>wrote:

> On 03/11/2013 11:48 AM, Brent Yorgey wrote:
> >
> > So I'd like to do it again this time around, and am looking for
> > particular projects I can suggest to them.  Do you have an open-source
> > project with a few well-specified tasks that a relative beginner (see
> > below) could reasonably make a contribution towards in the space of
> > about four weeks? I'm aware that most tasks don't fit that profile,
> > but even complex projects usually have a few "simple-ish" tasks that
> > haven't yet been done just because "no one has gotten around to it
> > yet".
>
> It's not exciting, but adding doctest suites with examples to existing
> packages would be a great help.
>
>   * Good return on investment.
>
>   * Not too hard.
>
>   * The project is complete when you stop typing.
>
>
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