On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 12:42 PM, Andrew Myers <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks for the response Jeff, I'll take a look at the suggested > issues. I'm sorry to hear that Yi contributions are slowing down, I > They did slow down but there have been some new faces like me and now you showing up recently so as we get up to speed on all the stuff I can see development accelerating in the near future :-) > really think we need a newer better alternative to emacs/vim and don't > see anything in that space with full language support built in. > I wholeheartedly agree. > > Andrew > > On May 2, 8:44 pm, Jeff Wheeler <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 7:25 PM, Andrew Myers <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I'm a full time software developer but reasonably new to haskell (been > > > reading stuff for the past year or so but haven't done a large project > > > in it) and I would like to help out if I can. I have a couple > > > questions, the most important, can someone point me at an issue in the > > > tracker that would probably be fairly simple to get to know the code? > > > I've been browsing through the yi source base for the past few days to > > > try to get a feel for it but I think it would help to have a simple > > > task to solve. > > > > Adding support for keymap features is pretty reasonable (see #133, > > #328, #330, #334, #260, #208, etc.). > > > > Random other things seem pretty approachable, also. I'd like to see > > #311, #313, #318, and #332 resolved. > > > > Note that a lot of these mention the Vim keybindings, but the Emacs > > keybindings will have often have analogous problems. > > > > > Can I contribute through git or do you only take pull requests through > > > the mercurial repository on google code? I love git and use it both > > > at work and home but I can learn mercurial if need be since they're > > > very similar. > > > > You're welcome to fork the GitHub repo [1] and make pull requests to > that. > > > > > Is there any significant documentation for configuration? I've read > > > the stuff on the blog and gone through the key.hs/config.hs etc files > > > but I still can't figure out how to make the apple command key behave > > > as Meta. > > > > The Haddock documentation on the very latest version fails to build > > due to a bug in cabal [2], but you can look at the Haddock > > documentation for the previous version (0.6.2.4) on Hackage [3]. > > Beyond that, there's not a lot, unfortunately (fortunately, that does > > cover a good deal of Yi details). > > > > > Lastly, how active is yi development? It seems reasonably active from > > > looking at the git logs but development has dropped off sharply in the > > > last two years. > > > > It's been intermittent for the last year or two, sadly. It seems like > > we still have a few patches a month or so. > > > > [1]https://github.com/yi-editor/yi > > [2]http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/656 > > [3]http://hackage.haskell.org/package/yi-0.6.2.4 > > > > -- > > Jeff Wheeler > > > > Undergraduate, Electrical Engineering > > University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign > > -- > Yi development mailing list > [email protected] > http://groups.google.com/group/yi-devel > -- Yi development mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/yi-devel
