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

[Edward Z. Yang]

I also support this suggestion.  Although, do we have the build infrastructure
for this?!

Edward

Excerpts from Michael Orlitzky's message of Mon Mar 11 19:52:12 -0700 2013:
> 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.
>