Add CONTRIBUTING.md

[yurrriq]

TODO

• Describe my general plan
  • Copy text
  • Translate code idiomatically
  • Update (edit/augment/delete) text accordingly
  • ... ?
• Firm up prerequisites (related: Add pandocfilters to list of prerequisites #10)
• Maybe get a good shell.nix sorted (TeX in Nix is pretty broken atm...)
• Solicit contributions
• Describe the pandoc workflow, including the hybrid GFM/TeX Literate Idris.
• Consider ditching the hybrid GFM madness for regular LaTeX
  This turned out to be more annoying that it seemed worth, so I abandoned the idea.

[steshaw]

@yurrriq, this is a very nice initiative! Certainly something I'd love to contribute to. I'm about half way through SF-in-Coq so contributing here would help motivate me complete SF-in-Coq while working out how to do all this stuff in Idris.

A quick google search seems to indicate that GFM = GitHub Flavoured Markdown?

Might be nice to set up a Gitter channel for this project (if you don't mind that kind of thing).

[yurrriq]

Awesome! I don't have much experience with Gitter but would be amenable to it. Maybe @jfdm has to set it up since he's the admin.

[clayrat]

Is there a chance for the Gitter channel to happen? I'm almost done with Poly and anticipate getting stuck on the coming chapters - would be cool to have a place to ask for help and invite potential contributors to.

[yurrriq]

I have no experience setting that up and don't use Gitter, personally. I'm yurrriq on IRC and hang out in #idris. Feel free to mention or DM me there whenever.

[yurrriq]

To avoid duplicated efforts could you open issues or WIP PRs when you're working on new stuff so I and others know what not to do?

[david-christiansen]

You're more likely to get ahold of Idrisers on #idris on Freenode -- Gitter isn't big in the Idris community.

[clayrat]

@david-christiansen Sure, my idea was to have some dedicated place to discuss SF-related issues and not to flood the main channel. The book does ask not to post solutions in public after all :) But I guess this won't generate much traffic, so it's probably safe to discuss directly in #idris or ##dependent.

[david-christiansen]

I don't think anyone would mind discussion of writing Idris on #idris. Clearly, you should feel free to discuss things wherever you want --- I just figure you're likely to encounter general Idris issues that the folks in #idris can help with, and that this might be useful.

[yurrriq]

I think Coq and Idris are different enough too that we wouldn't be ruining much for any Coq students by discussing strategies in Idris.