Does anyone actually know which tests are supposed to fail on 'validate'? On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 10:43 PM, Mateusz Kowalczyk <[email protected]> wrote: > On 03/01/14 13:27, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote: >> [snip] >> Thank you. We need lots of help! >> [snip] > > While I hate to interrupt this thread, I think this is a good chance to > mention something. > > I think the big issue for joining GHC development is the lack of > communication on the mailing list. There are many topics where a person > has a problem with GHC tree (can't validate/build, some tests are > failing), posts to GHC devs seeking help and never gets a reply. This is > very discouraging and often makes it outright impossible to contribute. > > An easy example is the failing tests one: unfortunately some tests are > known to fail, but they are only known to fail to existing GHC devs. A > new person tries to validate clean tree, gets test failures, asks for > help on GHC devs, doesn't get any, gives up. > > Is there any better way to get through than ghc-devs? Even myself I'd > love to get started but if I can't get help even getting the ‘clean’ > tree to a state where I'm confident it's not a problem with my machine, > how am I to write patches for anything? A more serious example is that > the work I did over summer on Haddock still hasn't been pushed in. Why? > Because neither Simon Hengel nor myself can ensure that we haven't > broken anything as neither of use gets a clean validate. I have in fact > asked for help recently with this but to no avail and I do know Simon > also sought help in the past to no avail. I have also tried to join the > development quite a few months in the past now but due to failing tests > on validate and lack of help, I had to give up on that. > > Please guys, try to increase responsiveness to posts on this list. It's > very easy to scroll down in your mail client and see just how many > threads never got a single reply. > > -- > Mateusz K. > _______________________________________________ > ghc-devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs
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