As a relatively new Haskell user, I've been pretty disappointed with the state of haskell.org. I know I'm preaching to the choir here, but with large portions of the site currently inaccessible and others taking an unreasonable amount of time to load (at least up until recently), haskell.org is far from usable. Members of #haskell-infrastructure were kind enough to answer some of my questions yesterday when I was trying to get the lay of the land and understand how things work and what the current process it. I know that there's currently a loose confederation of volunteers working on haskell.org as with any open-source project and I wanted to see how I might be able to help.
I have experience with devops -- not a ton, but enough. It may very well be that there's nothing I can help with and that everyone is already familiar with the issues and working on them. However, if part of the issue is lack of time then I'm here to offer some. I seem to be hearing people in #haskell-infrastructure say that they're aware of issues, but don't have time. This is quite understandable, but that's why I'd like to help in any way I can. To that end, I think it's a worthwhile endeavor to spend some time publishing some information that could help acclimate a willing person in terms of how one can help and how to get involved generally. As I said before, people in IRC have been helpful and there are some docs in the wiki on phabricator, but it still leaves much to be desired. There seems to be a mostly oral tradition of how infra is currently managed and I feel like the process of onboarding someone who's willing to help is sort of lacking at the moment. Perhaps that's where I could start? I could bug people on IRC to tell me everything they know and I can work on some documentation perhaps. Please do let me know if my meddling is doing more bad than good. I sincerely want to help and my main goal (as a user) is to see haskell.org performing well. Thanks for your consideration. -- Levi Notik 516.710.5650 646.484.9181
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