DifficultyEstimated implementation difficulty for a new contributor, from 1 for very small changes to 5 for expert-level work.
3
Estimated timeA rough time range for an experienced contributor to investigate, implement, test, and prepare a pull request.
1-3 hours
Activity statusHow available the issue appears right now: fresh, active, stale, blocked, or waiting on maintainer input.
stale
ClarityHow clearly the issue explains the expected change, acceptance criteria, and next step.
mostly clear
Prerequisites
basic Haskellfamiliarity with elm format codebase
Newbie friendlinessA 1-100 score estimating how approachable this issue is for first-time contributors.
30
Research direction
Investigate the linked commit to understand how doc strings are processed in elm format. The bug occurs when asterisks in doc strings are escaped incorrectly. Look at the parser or formatter module responsible for doc string formatting, likely in ElmFormat.hs or similar. Check the existing tests for doc string formatting and add a failing test for this case. Then modify the escaping logic to preserve asterisks as is.
Asterisks get escaped in doc strings · avh4/elm-format#540 | Good First Issue
