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 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.
Andrew On May 2, 8:44 pm, Jeff Wheeler <jeffwhee...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 7:25 PM, Andrew Myers <asm...@gmail.com> 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 yi-devel@googlegroups.com http://groups.google.com/group/yi-devel
