[Haskell-cafe] starting GHC development -- two questions

[Richard Eisenberg]

You may also want to check out this freshly-minted page on the wiki:
http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Newcomers

Every now and again, someone asks exactly the same question that you 
did, so I've created that page to help answer it. I hope you find it 
useful.

Happy hacking!

Richard

On 2013-08-09 00:25, Ömer Sinan Ağacan wrote:
> Hello Edward,
> 
>> First off, welcome to the wonderful world of GHC development!  I
>> recommend that you subscribe to the ghc-devs mailing list and
>> direct GHC specific questions there:
>> 
>>     http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs
> 
> Thanks, I didn't know that. I subscribed and I will ask further
> questions to that list.
> 
>> GHC has a 'make tags' command but I've never gotten it to work.  I 
>> have
>> always just run 'hasktags .' in the compiler/ directory, which works
>> pretty well for me.  (If you're in the RTS, run ctags, etc instead)
> 
> Great! It worked at the first try and I already started using it.
> 
>> We've been discussing putting together an easy bugs list.  As a proxy,
>> you can search on the 'Difficulty' keyword:
>> http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/query?status=infoneeded&status=merge&status=new&status=patch&difficulty=Easy+(less+than+1+hour)&col=id&col=summary&col=status&col=type&col=priority&col=milestone&col=component&order=priority
>> 
>> For example, this bug seems like a good beginner bug to get your feet
>> wet with the RTS: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/750
>> 
>> This one will give you some experience wrangling the test suite:
>> http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8079
>> 
>> Moving up to the moderate category, here is a nontrivial bug involving
>> profiling and the optimizer: 
>> http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/609
>> 
>> As with all open source projects, there is always lots of
>> infrastructural work to be done, so if that's your sort of thing, 
>> there
>> are plenty of bugs in that category.
> 
> Thanks, I'll start looking for issues with easy difficulty for now and
> ask further questions to ghc-devs mailing list.
> 
> ---
> Ömer Sinan Ağacan
> http://osa1.net
> 
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