Re: Project ideas for Haskell Summer of Code 2023

[Albert Krewinkel <albert+pandoc-9EawChwDxG8hFhg+JK9F0w@public.gmane.org>]

Hi!

"bkle...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org" <bkleung89-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> writes:

> The Haskell Foundation is sponsoring a SoC program (https://
> github.com/haskell-org/summer-of-haskell/pull/167).
>
> There is a task list for Pandoc (https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues
> /1852), but many of those tasks have been completed. Is there an
> updated list of tasks somewhere?

We don't have a list right now. Here are two ideas:

- Compile an in-browser version of pandoc: There is
  <https://markup.rocks>, but it is outdated and hasn't been updated for
  years. We have restructured pandoc's modules to make it easier to
  build it without Lua, which removes the biggest non-Haskell
  dependency. The other big one is libyaml, as a pure Haskell library
  wasn't fast enough. Fixing performance issues in Haskell's YAML
  parsing, building it into pandoc and providing an in-browser version
  of pandoc would be huge.

- Improved support for OOXML: to be honest though, this is less about
  Haskell and more about reading the Office Open XML specs.


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Albert Krewinkel
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