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.wa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > 2013/4/8 Evan Laforge <qdun...@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 > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > >
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