How Should We Spend Friday?

Projects

Add projects ideas you have, and add your name if you're interested in working on them.

• Hacking the build system (for example)
• Setting up GHC to build the base library using Cabal (since you have the GHC team, the Cabal team and the hmake team in one place!)
  • Isaac Jones - I can be available for general Cabal questions as well.
• Hacking on Cabal-Get (not really a GHC thing!)
  • Isaac Jones
• Fix C-- (cmm) output?
• Discussing proposed changes to backend and code generation
• Discussing dynamic linking
• Strategies in debugging GHC and RTS.
• Improve instance deriving: allow deriving Enum for more types, allow deriving Eq, Ord, Show for GADTs. -- Bjorn Bringert

General Organization

The above are specific projects or subgroups that might form. What about more generally? How should we organise the day?

• just let everyone hack on individual projects, with floating Simons to help. --- I'd like that.
• form subgroups to work together on shared projects
  • Project ideas here?
  • Resuscitate ExternalCore
  • Low hanging optimizations?
  • STGLint
  • Rewrite the Evil Mangler in Haskell?
  • GHC RTS in Cyclone?
  • Work on GHC API, I would like to use it to provide feedback and interactivity to programmers
  • Hook a multithreaded memory manager into the RTS
• have more explanatory talk sessions led from the front
• form subgroups for explanatory sessions on different topics (but not to work on a shared project)
• work on fleshing out the wiki/commentary?
• ???