ZuriHac contribution guide

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Contributing

How to contribute

• loose project structure (BDFL)
• discuss early
• repositories
  • github.com/haskell/ghcup-hs: documentation, bootstrap-scripts, ghcup exe
  • github.com/haskell/ghcup-metadata: bindist mapping (YAML), bindist testing
• build with cabal/stack
  • git clone https://github.com/haskell/ghcup-hs.git
  • cd ghcup-hs
  • cabal build
  • you can also use the project files specific for a GHC version, e.g.: cabal build --project-file=cabal.ghc948.project
  • or stack: stack build
• also check out the Developer Guide
• communication
  • #haskell-ghcup on libera IRC
  • #ghcup:matrix.org (bridged with IRC)
  • github issues
  • haskell discourse (interacting with the community)

Cool things to contribute to

• documentation
• discussions
• "recommended" versions
  • overview of GHC issues and regressions
• new features
  • e.g. "health check" command
• improving test suite
• TUI (ask @lsmor)

Hard things to contribute to

• nightlies
• revisions
• curating old releases
• proper API for e.g. stack
• better ghcup compile interface
• TUF?
• supporting more tools (installer DSL)

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Dummy PR for creating new healthcheck command: #1075

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Improving warnings: #1079