New subject: Fwd: GSoC Project Proposal: Markdown support for Haddock

9 Apr 2013

      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  wrote:
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2013/4/8 Evan Laforge 
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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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Fwd: GSoC Project Proposal: Markdown support for Haddock

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