You may also want to check out this freshly-minted page on the wiki:
http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Newcomers
Every now and again, someone asks exactly the same question that you
did, so I've created that page to help answer it. I hope you find it
useful.
Happy hacking!
Richard
On 2013-08-09 00:25, Ömer Sinan Ağacan wrote:
Hello Edward,
First off, welcome to the wonderful world of GHC development! I
recommend that you subscribe to the ghc-devs mailing list and
direct GHC specific questions there:
http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs
Thanks, I didn't know that. I subscribed and I will ask further
questions to that list.
GHC has a 'make tags' command but I've never gotten it to work. I
have
always just run 'hasktags .' in the compiler/ directory, which works
pretty well for me. (If you're in the RTS, run ctags, etc instead)
Great! It worked at the first try and I already started using it.
We've been discussing putting together an easy bugs list. As a proxy,
you can search on the 'Difficulty' keyword:
http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/query?status=infoneeded&status=merge&status=new&status=patch&difficulty=Easy+(less+than+1+hour)&col=id&col=summary&col=status&col=type&col=priority&col=milestone&col=component&order=priority
For example, this bug seems like a good beginner bug to get your feet
wet with the RTS: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/750
This one will give you some experience wrangling the test suite:
http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8079
Moving up to the moderate category, here is a nontrivial bug involving
profiling and the optimizer:
http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/609
As with all open source projects, there is always lots of
infrastructural work to be done, so if that's your sort of thing,
there
are plenty of bugs in that category.
Thanks, I'll start looking for issues with easy difficulty for now and
ask further questions to ghc-devs mailing list.
---
Ömer Sinan Ağacan
http://osa1.net
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