I would be interested in discussing this project with a potential mentor if one happens to be reading. I'm a second year Computer Science student at the University of Nottingham, very interested in doing a haskell.org SoC project.

On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 8:17 PM, David Waern <david.waern@gmail.com> wrote:

2013/4/8 Evan Laforge <qdunkan@gmail.com>

Can't we just add some features to haddock? There are a lot of ways
to improve haddock a lot, and no one is doing them, so my impression
is that haddock doesn't really have active maintainers. Adding a
whole new backend seems risky, unless it results in new maintainers
joining.

As one of the official maintainers (the other one is Simon Hengel), I agree that Haddock can barely be called actively maintained and it has been like that for a long time now. It's sad, but we lack of time, which is the usual excuse of course. A more resourceful maintainer would be great, so if someone reading this is motivated and wants to help out, we'd love to be contacted by you.

I don't think a SoC project for Markdown support would be risky at all (with a sufficiently good student), however. And it wouldn't require a new backend, the backend would still be the existing HTML backend in Haddock.

David

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