Re: Notes from Ben's "contribute to ghc" discussion

If we loop this discussion back to the original post. There is a suggestion in there which seems to be what you are looking for.

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”.

It is also probably lost that I said there was a phabricator module 'ponder' which gives this kind of functionality so it should be quick and easy to setup. Matt On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 9:23 AM, Harendra Kumar wrote:

On 25 September 2016 at 12:48, Joachim Breitner wrote:

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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

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