Hello all,

Thanks for all the work that's put into GHC :)

I've tried to get into GHC development before, but I was unsuccessful, mostly because I didn't dedicate enough time to understanding the problem at hand & exploring the codebase.

I'd like to give it another shot. This time, I think I have a clear vision of what I want to help with: Have haskell's error messages be easier to read and understand.

1. Colors and layout to highlight important parts of the error messages

2. Clear formatting & naming of errors, so they're easily googleable, stack-overflow able, etc.

3. better hints with error messages, and perhaps integrated lints(?).

4. I don't know if this is already possible, but allowing GHC errors to be shipped off as JSON or something to interested tooling.

I saw this ticket on trac: https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8809
I would like to take this up, but I'd like help / pointers and stuff. I have GHC setup, I know how to use phabricator, but.. where do I start? :)

Thanks,

S~iddharth