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Idea: New-project-starter repo templates

Open silky opened this issue 2 years ago • 0 comments

I'm not sure if this is the best place to record this idea; it also probably relates to haskell.org ( / a general unification ); but I just wanted to note it down.

Given GitHub's "template" repos, I thought it might be nice to create a couple for people looking to get started with Haskell in a variety of ways.

Immediate ideas I have are:

  • A simple project with stack/hpack,
  • A simple project with cabal,
  • Some combination of the above with CI,
  • Some combination of the above with tests/quickcheck/hedgehog
  • A simple project with nix-flakes in some manner (stacklock2nix, ???)
  • Could also include the HF recommended guidelines for code of conduct, communication, etc.

Does anyone else have other thoughts? Could be a nice simple thing to maintain and point new people to; as long as it doesn't become a maintenance burden (i.e. it's community-maintained.)

This could probably feed into related ideas around the 'create-haskell-app' idea from the Discourse discussion, but I don't think they should necessarily be coupled, as it's possible to do either independently, and later merge as appropriate.

silky avatar Nov 05 '23 09:11 silky