I hope Hadrian topics qualify under "building GHC from source"? Sent from my iPhone
> On 7 Apr 2018, at 16.33, Niklas Hambüchen <m...@nh2.me> wrote: > > Hi GHC devs, > > The ZuriHac 2018 conference will feature a GHC DevOps track (which > Andreas and I are coordinating), that will be all about fostering > contributions to GHC and learning to hack it. There will be a room or > two allocated at Zurihac for this purpose. > > We hope to focus on roughly these topics: > > * How to build GHC from source > * How to iterate on changes quickly > * What's the development workflow, how do I get my patch merged? > * How do specific parts of GHC work > * Extending GHC's test suite > * Improving automation, processes and release quality > * Documenting the undocumented > > If we are successful, we will have more GHC contributers after ZuriHac > than before. > > But we need your contributions to add content to the track! > > Specifically, we're looking for ZuriHac attendees who could (help) run a > session in this track. Such as: > > * Giving a talk about one of the above or related topics > * Hosting a hack session where participants of the track work together > on the GHC code base towards a specific goal > * Being around as a "GHC mentor" during open hack sessions, helping new > GHC contributors out > > To give some examples, I could offer to give a talk on a recent effort > to improve Ctrl+C and signal handling in the RTS, and I would like to > run a hack session where we add performance regression tests based on > CPU instruction counters. > > Please contact Andreas or me (on this list or privately) if you think > you could help in any of these directions! > If you're not sure, contact us anyway and tell us your idea! > > Best, > Niklas and Andreas > ZuriHac 2018 GHC DevOps track coordinators > _______________________________________________ > ghc-devs mailing list > ghc-devs@haskell.org > http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs
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