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GSOC Suggestions #60

Closed ketzacoatl closed 3 years ago

ketzacoatl commented 3 years ago

Between https://summer.haskell.org/ideas.html and https://discourse.haskell.org/t/gsoc-2021-call-for-ideas/1775, it seems there isn't much in the way of great suggestions for students interested in contributing to Haskell through GSOC.

It seems like a good idea to brainstorm and build a list here together with others, that we could share with the GSOC maintainer/shepherd. What do you think?

cc @tomjaguarpaw

tomjaguarpaw commented 3 years ago

It seems like writing docs is out of scope, but writing code examples or improving the APIs of tools and libraries would be in scope.

The GSoC rules state that it must involve writing code primarily (as opposed to docs).

One thing I would like to see is a well-typed interface to process along the lines of https://github.com/haskell/process/compare/master...tomjaguarpaw:type-level-maybe, but perhaps the challenge there is more one of persuasion to adopt it than a coding one per se.

ketzacoatl commented 3 years ago

Some ideas I have, initially:

ketzacoatl commented 3 years ago

One thing I would like to see is a well-typed interface to process along the lines of haskell/process@master...tomjaguarpaw:type-level-maybe, but perhaps the challenge there is more one of persuasion to adopt it than a coding one per se.

Have you gotten to use typed-process? Here's the readme: https://github.com/fpco/typed-process#readme

ketzacoatl commented 3 years ago

Also from the GSOC doc:

You can contribute ideas by sending a pull request to our github repository. If you just want to discuss a possible idea, please contact us.

In terms of effort:

Projects should be concrete and small enough in scope such that they can be finished by a student in three months. Past experience has shown that keeping projects “small” is almost always a good idea.

Important change for 2021: In the past, GSoC projects were expected to take up the equivalent of full time employment for a student. However, in 2021, this has been reduced to half time positions: students are expected to work around 175 hours in a 10 week period.

tomjaguarpaw commented 3 years ago

Have you gotten to use typed-process?

Thanks, I should have a closer look at typed process. So far I only focused on one specific aspect of type unsafety of process.

tomjaguarpaw commented 3 years ago

I have had a good experience contributing docs to typed-process

ketzacoatl commented 3 years ago

I guess one flaw in my initial thinking was that the GSoC projects rely on a mentor, so it seems weird to push ideas out to projects that need to mentor the GSoC students themselves. These ideas need to come from the projects.