Please help me with these open source Haskell projects

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Here are some pull requests and issues that have been awaiting my attention for months or years.

Sadly, I haven’t found and probably won’t find enough time for them. So I am asking you for help.

If you can work on and close at least one of the items below, that would be awesome.

Thanks to people who have helped so far:

Update (2017-06-14). I now have processed most of the PRs here myself.

Pull requests awaiting reviews

These are pull requests submitted to my projects. For each one, I describe what needs to be done.

ansi-terminal: add save, restore, report cursor

https://github.com/UnkindPartition/ansi-terminal/pull/18

Needs a review and testing on different platforms.

ansi-terminal: compatibility with Win32-2.5.0.0 and above

https://github.com/UnkindPartition/ansi-terminal/pull/21

Needs review and testing.

tasty: build with GHCJS

https://github.com/UnkindPartition/tasty/pull/150

This one actually has little to do with tasty or ghcjs; it only needs a PR for the clock package to fall back to time.

tasty: make --quickcheck-show-replay always show the seed (not just on failure)

https://github.com/UnkindPartition/tasty/pull/143

Need to figure out how to fix this without going back to random (see this comment).

temporary: canonicalized versions of withSystemTempDirectory and withTempDirectory

https://github.com/UnkindPartition/temporary/pull/2

Needs another pair of eyes — especially regarding the mysterious withCanonicalizedSystemTempDirectory.

tasty: add soft timeouts

https://github.com/UnkindPartition/tasty/pull/89

When a QuickCheck test runs into a timeout, Tasty does not report the input values generated by QuickCheck for the interrupted run.

This PR is probably affected by this change in exception handling — you’ll need to figure out how exactly and update the pull request appropriately.

immortal: add wait

Done on 2017-05-07 by Alexey Zabelin

https://github.com/UnkindPartition/immortal/pull/2

For graceful shutdown, I wait for threads to finish in my servers main loop. I would like to do the same with Immortal threads.

What needs to be done:

  1. Rebase
  2. Add a test

tasty-golden: add golden test for text files

https://github.com/UnkindPartition/tasty-golden/pull/15

I think the point of this PR is to add an internal diff implementation, but I am not sure.

If you understand and like the idea, please update the PR and make a new case for it; otherwise I’ll probably close it.

tasty: Silence a few GHC warnings

https://github.com/UnkindPartition/tasty/pull/122

Needs rebase and review.

Issues that need to be fixed

Here are a couple of issues that I care about and was going to fix myself, but can’t find the time.

stack: no package names in haddock index

https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stack/issues/2886

xmonad: notifications pop up on top of xscreensaver

https://github.com/xmonad/xmonad/issues/74