cabal new-* commands awesomeness

I just wanted to say, `cabal new-configure' and `new-install' commands are awesome! Thanks to everyone who worked on it. I have a few (unrelated) questions: 1. Will the `new' variants become the default? That will be nice! 2. I would like to contribute to Cabal project (especially after the recent "discussions" on reddit and elsewhere on cabal vs stack etc..). Are there "byte-sized" projects for people unfamiliar with Cabal source code to look at? I saw that some bugs are tagged as "easy". Starting to take a look. 3. Is there an irc channel where cabal devs hang out? Thanks -- Ramakrishnan

Hi,
On 19 September 2016 at 08:46, Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan
1. Will the `new' variants become the default? That will be nice!
Yes, that's the plan. This won't happen in the next release (2.0), though.
2. I would like to contribute to Cabal project (especially after the recent "discussions" on reddit and elsewhere on cabal vs stack etc..). Are there "byte-sized" projects for people unfamiliar with Cabal source code to look at?
Great, welcome onboard. Take a look at https://github.com/haskell/cabal/labels/meta%3A%20easy. See also https://github.com/haskell/cabal/wiki/Hackathon2015#more-modest-projects.
3. Is there an irc channel where cabal devs hang out?
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Mikhail Glushenkov
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Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan