Cool, I'm in! (Also inspired by [1]this post by Erik de Castro Lopo) It would be nice to keep track of participants somewhere, so that each of us knows he's not alone :)
1. http://www.mega-nerd.com/erikd/Blog/CodeHacking/DDC/hacking_ddc.html * Simon Marlow <marlo...@gmail.com> [2009-11-16 16:29:46+0000] > Help us weed the GHC ticket database, and get a warm fuzzy feeling from > contributing to Haskell core technology! > > There are currently ~750 tickets against GHC. Many of them have not been > looked at in months or years. Often when I go through old tickets I find > easy targets: bugs that have already been fixed, duplicates, bugs that are > not reproducible and the submitter has gone away. > > So the idea we have is this: do an incremental sweep of the whole > database, starting from the oldest tickets. Check each one, and try to > make some progress on it. If we get enough momentum going we can make > sure every ticket gets looked at every few months at the least. > > This is a game for the whole family! We don't care how much progress you > make on each ticket, just as long as someone has taken a look and moved > the ticket forward in some way. For example, you might check for > duplicates, update the metadata, ask for more information from the > submitter, try to reproduce the bug against the latest version of GHC. > > To claim a ticket all you have to do is remove it from the list on the > wiki. Full instructions are here > > http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/BugSweep > > including a list of suggestions for ways to make progress on a ticket. -- Roman I. Cheplyaka :: http://ro-che.info/ "Don't let school get in the way of your education." - Mark Twain _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe