Friends

Here are the notes I took from session 2 of the Haskell Implementors Meeting.  The bolding is my choice of emphasis.

Simon

· Doc bugs.    Two kinds

o Typos.   Friction stops me

o Explanations needed e.g. read/show

· Lightweight pushes

· Make user manual into its own repo, to make it easier to take pull requests.  But that makes it harder when making synchronised changes to GHC and user manual.

· Auto-push: Ability to push to Phab and have it committed automatically if it validates.

· Style guides.  Is having a defined style solving a problem we don’t really have?  One piece of guidance: adhere to the style of the surrounding code.  Low priority.

· Docker images.   We should have one.

· Remove old documentation!

· Cross compilation is difficult.

· Have a GHC StackOverflow on haskell.org   (Jacob Zalewski jakzale@gmail.com offers to do this! – thank you).  It has a useful new Documentation feature.   Eg this would be good for “how do I look up a RdrName to get a Name… there seem to be six different functions that do that”.