Hi, Am Freitag, den 09.05.2014, 11:35 +0200 schrieb Lorenzo Tabacchini:

I am a GHC-newbie happy to help. Besides cloning, building the sources and reading the introductory pages on the GHC wiki, is there anything else I can do to prepare for the event? Are there any easier parts to start reading the code?

not sure, and I was a newbie very recently as well, so I can only give so much guidance and I won’t promise success. At least we’ll have fun :-) If you are ready to build the code, then that’s a good start. Bonus points if you can know how to validate the code, and even better if you have a dedicated checkout for that. Of course, you can skim through the list of bugs and mark some as interesting to you (but putting yourself on the CC list) already. Greetings, Joachim -- Joachim “nomeata” Breitner mail@joachim-breitner.de • http://www.joachim-breitner.de/ Jabber: nomeata@joachim-breitner.de • GPG-Key: 0xF0FBF51F Debian Developer: nomeata@debian.org

I'll try to help too, but I won't be there in person Thanks for organising this Simon | -----Original Message----- | From: ghc-devs [mailto:ghc-devs-bounces@haskell.org] On Behalf Of Simon | Marlow | Sent: 09 May 2014 16:48 | To: Joachim Breitner; ghc-devs@haskell.org | Subject: Re: Bugsquashing at ZuriHac | | Sounds like a great idea! I'll be around to answer questions. | | Cheers, | Simon | | On 07/05/2014 13:54, Joachim Breitner wrote: | > Dear fellow deverlopers, | > | > I'll be attending ZuriHac in a month time, without a project of my own | > that I plan to pursue. Hence I'm considering to run a "GHC bug | > squashing" project there. Besides getting bugs squashed, this should | > hopefully attract new contributors and allow us to teach them the | > ropes and tricks and the need for notes efficiently by | > shoulder-surfing and face-to-face discussions. | > | > Who of you is going to attend ZuriHac as well and will want to join me | > in managing this project? | > | > Also, this means its a good time to start tagging tickets as suitable | > for beginners. I know we have a list somewhere, but googling for "ghc | > easy tickets" does not find it... but clicking through the wiki I find | > https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Newcomers#Fixingabug | > which is unfortunately quite small. | > | > I'll also look for tickets of difficulty easy and moderate. | > | > Greetings, | > Joachim | > | > | > | > | > _______________________________________________ | > ghc-devs mailing list | > ghc-devs@haskell.org | > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs | > | _______________________________________________ | ghc-devs mailing list | ghc-devs@haskell.org | http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs