good point, that should maybe be more prominently discoverable! relatedly: how are the 'low haning fruit" tickets on that page generated? I can't see how On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 4:26 AM, Daniil Frumin wrote:

I like that codefirefox.com site!

GHC wiki has something similar to Mozilla's introduction page: https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Newcomers

On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 12:04 PM, Carter Schonwald < carter.schonwald@gmail.com> wrote:

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Hey All, I just came across the mozilla firefox "how to get involved in the dev" docs http://codefirefox.com/ and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6753583and https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/introduction

One thing I've been very active on lately is trying to figure out how to talk more people into trying to help out with ghc. And the firefox stuff there seems to lay out a great collection of examples of ways to make it a bit easier / managable to get involved!

figured it'd be worth sharing -Carter

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On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 4:45 PM, Jan Stolarek wrote:

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relatedly: how are the 'low haning fruit" tickets on that page generated? I can't see how Arbitrarily :-) Any developer can add a "low hanging fruit" ticket if he judges that: a) ticket is relatively easy for a beginner to tackle and; b) is willing to aid a beginner in working on that ticket (though this is not strictly necessary if one judges that support from ghc-devs will be sufficient). For example I added #8308 because I can guide a beginner through implementation of that ticket (at least I believe so).

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I think it’d be great to reduce the barrier to entry for newcomers, and would welcome anything you (or anyone else) can do to help. Thanks! Yes, reducing barrier for beginners would be a great thing to do (I remember how frustrating were my beginnings with GHC) but that would be an investment - meaning that we would have to put a lot of effort into it hoping that in the future we will have more developers. The best thing I could imagine would be videos presenting implementation of GHC. Something like that was already recorded during Hackathons but that vidoes have horrible quality and are almost impossible to watch. If we could re-record that with better quality (and more up-to-date) it would be great.

I agree that videos might boost the interest in GHC hacking. Maybe if Chris Forno [1] starts hacking on GHC we will see some cool videocasts :) [1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEFETKhhq8w&list=PLxj9UAX4Em-IBXkvcC3MycLlcxyoi7v8B

Janek

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On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 4:26 AM, Daniil Frumin

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I like that codefirefox.com site!

GHC wiki has something similar to Mozilla's introduction page: https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Newcomers

On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 12:04 PM, Carter Schonwald <

carter.schonwald@gmail.com> wrote:

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Hey All, I just came across the mozilla firefox "how to get involved in the dev" docs http://codefirefox.com/ and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6753583and https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/introduction

One thing I've been very active on lately is trying to figure out how to talk more people into trying to help out with ghc. And the firefox stuff there seems to lay out a great collection of examples of ways to make it a bit easier / managable to get involved!

figured it'd be worth sharing -Carter

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