Hi David,

Great to here that you're going to hack on cabal. We need all the contributors we can get!

The general roadmap for 1.20 is here: http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/cabal-devel/2013-September/009533.html

The "Do the right thing automatically" section is probably the most newbie friendly.

Other than that we really need to get the bug tracker under control. This means triaging bugs and fixing those that need fixing and closing the rest. I took a stab at this a while ago but if you want something to get your feet wet, I suggest grabbing something that looks interesting from the bug tracker.

As for hacking on cabal, I suggest using sandboxes, like so:

cd cabal/cabal-install

# only once:

cabal sandbox init

cabal sandbox add-source ../Cabal

cabal install -j --only-dep

# to (re)build:

cabal build

-- Johan

On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 1:50 PM, David Laing <dave.laing.80@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi all,

There are a few people in my local FP meetup group looking into doing some semi-regular Haskell hack nights, and we're hoping to target various tools and libraries in the Haskell ecosystem so that we can give back a little while having fun and honing our skills. 

Cabal is pretty high on our list of things to hack on, and we're hoping to start mid next week.

I'm sure we'll be able to click through github issues and submit pull requests on our own, but I thought I'd ask if anyone has any thoughts on areas that would be good to look at that might sit in a sweet spot of being both beneficial to Cabal and accessible to newcomers to the code.

Does anyone have any thoughts?

Cheers,

Dave

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