On 25 September 2016 at 12:48, Joachim Breitner <mail@joachim-breitner.de> wrote:

Hi,

> It will be great to have something like that. Something that you
> figure out digging at ghc trac wiki pages, mailing lists, google
> search etc will be a few minutes job for a mentor. It may be a bit
> taxing on the mentors but they can limit how many newbies they are
> mentoring and also breed new mentors to keep the cycle going.

I hope and assume that already now that every possible contributor who
has questions like this and asks (e.g. on irc) will get a helpful
answer. Is that insufficient?

Maybe. Though irc seems to be quite popular among Haskell community and other open source communities I have never been able to utilize it somehow. I don't know if there is something wrong with it or with me. I installed an irc client logged into it once or twice but never got hooked to it. Such questions on ghc-devs maybe a nuisance for a lot of other people or at least that's what I felt as a newbie. I usually tend to do a lot of homework before sending a question to ghc-devs. Maybe a ghc-newbies like mailing list (one more list!) can give the impression of a lower barrier for sending stupid or operational questions.

-harendra