Re: I'd like to help out.

[Erik de Castro Lopo <mle+hs@mega-nerd.com>]

Sean Lee wrote:

> Dons has just said "The debian-haskell community is active! Help 'em
> out!" on reddit and I thought I'd help out.

I send almost the same message to this list about two weeks ago :-).

> Although I still have a lot of things to learn, I think there must be
> some bits which I could help out with.

At the moment, what I, as a newcommer, see as the main focus is
transitioning all the existing packages from ghc 6.8.2 to 6.10.1.

Probably the biggest thing you can do to  help right now is to get
yourself a Debian unstable chroot or VM and grab the Debian source
packages for existing packages and make sure they build with the
6.10.1 compiler.

For those that don't compile, raise bugs and help the maintainers
sort out the transitioning of their packages.

Once all the existing packages have been transitioned then packaging
other Haskell stuff would also be useful.

> Sean Lee
> PhD Student
> Programming Language and Systems Research Group
> School of Computer Science and Engineering
> University of New South Wales

Since you're in Sydney (like me), you should get along to FP-Syd:

    http://groups.google.com/group/fp-syd

Cheers,
Erik
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