Talking as a Haskell user, but also a cabal maintainer:
the Haddock work Hécate describes is crucial for the health
and efficiency of the whole ecosystem and the sooner
we can start it, the less drag it's going to have on the rest.
Given that GHC expertise is not necessary for many
of the tasks involved, could we forward this message
to other media? I don't think there is shame in disclosing
technical debt (as opposed to hiding it) and I think the way
it's worded, it may be viewed as a challenge, not a turn-off.
Still, are there any suggestions on how to tweak the text
before an announcement on discourse, reddit, etc.?
Would, e.g., HF, like to chime in early in each of the ensuing
discussions? If so, how would we know where it gets posted to?
Cheers,
Mikolaj
On Thu, May 26, 2022 at 4:39 PM Hécate
Hi everyone,
Haddock needs help.
Since I joined the Haddock team to help triage the tickets and interact with the community, we lost all of our experts, and I didn't have time to level up quickly enough to handle the mass of incoming tickets, let alone actually reduce the number of tickets to number below two hundred.
As things stand now, the Haddock code base is in a disastrous state, largely not understood and its CI is in shambles. There are things that we can improve on the short and longer term – see https://github.com/haskell/haddock/issues/1465 – but the greater lack of expertise means that any project involving some core business logic is bound to be utterly and unnecessarily painful. The Hi Haddock GSOC proposal, whilst fully implemented in GHC, cannot be brought in Haddock at this moment in a reasonable timeline without any help.
At present time, I need:
* People who can refactor the code base, following modern software engineering practices, like domain-driven design and test-driven development. * UI developers, proficient in CSS and web accessibility.
If you feel like you fit some of these criteria, please do contact me at this address. If your company can spare some engineering hours for you to give a hand, you're most welcome to do so.
Just so we are clear, I am immensely grateful to the people who have submitted fixes and patches these past months, but this situation is untenable.
Hécate ✨ 🐦: @TechnoEmpress IRC: Hecate WWW: https://glitchbra.in RUN: BSD
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