Hac 2007/Projects

• Over-all goal: Get Hackage Done. See Isaac's detailed explanation. Please add / remove stuff! This covers some of the following:
  • integrate cabal-install
  • build attractive web front-end
  • augment hackage back-end
  • brainstorm ways to improve adoption
    • how do we make it _the_ place people look for packages?
  • make recommendation to isaac jones: Should we buy a new server (or virtual colo) or should we use monk
• Darcs
• GHC
• libraries bugs
• integrating SoC code (for cabal?)
• new releases
• AJAX/HAppS?
• Yhc + Cabal + Base
• Haskell installer project, Gtk2Hs/GHC/Hugs/Cabal unified installer for Windows
• Gtk2Hs + Gtk + GHC + Windows + Threads

• porting libraries
• new library/tool releases
• compiler ports: want to get YHC running on your favourite machine?
• new tools
• infrastructure hacking: cabal, hackage
• documentation
• tutorials
• bug squashing
• feature implementations (walk the Trac list)
• External core (Yhc and GHC): Making the (Haskell) external core interpreter in ghc/utils/ext-core work (again?)
• A suitable low overhead GHC (+ others?) run time system interface to Integer C functions
• http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/595 (Overhaul GHC's overlapping/non-exhaustive pattern checking)
• Mac OS X test failures (ghc-6.6 and ghc-HEAD)
• GHCi debugger: integrate in Emacs and/or Visual Haskell