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digitalmars.D - First round of Facebook bounties funded - have at it!

reply Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail erdani.org> writes:
Hello,


We've chosen a representative collection of 23 bugs that are one or more 
of important, long-standing, difficult, unenjoyable to work on:

https://bountysource.com/trackers/383571-d-programming-language

A few have already people working on them (active pull requests etc); 
those will have priority in case submissions arrive at about the same 
time. Anyway, there's plenty to work on.

We at Facebook will monitor the evolution of these issues (and the 
project evolution in general) to assess whether adding bounties actually 
improves the process (accelerates the time to fix, improves overall 
participation, stimulates work on other areas of the project). One valid 
concern that organizations have is the negative effect - people may 
actually stop working on unpaid bugs in expectation for bounties to be 
put on them. Let's not let that happen!

I encourage everyone to focus on doing great work on improving the 
quality of D. If this experiment is successful, there will be a second 
round of funding. Please reply to this if you have any bugs you believe 
would be fit for bounties.


Thanks,

Andrei
Nov 15 2013
next sibling parent "deadalnix" <deadalnix gmail.com> writes:
If I may, this one should be in the list.

https://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=11447

It is causing 15 regressions in SDC's test suite. It is a bug of 
the worst kind: the code compile fine, but codegen is bogus.
Nov 15 2013
prev sibling next sibling parent "Vladimir Panteleev" <vladimir thecybershadow.net> writes:
On Saturday, 16 November 2013 at 05:59:54 UTC, Andrei 
Alexandrescu wrote:

 https://bountysource.com/trackers/383571-d-programming-language


Wow. Thank you!!!
Nov 15 2013
prev sibling next sibling parent Dmitry Olshansky <dmitry.olsh gmail.com> writes:
16-Nov-2013 09:59, Andrei Alexandrescu пишет:

 I encourage everyone to focus on doing great work on improving the
 quality of D. If this experiment is successful, there will be a second
 round of funding. Please reply to this if you have any bugs you believe
 would be fit for bounties.


If I may stuff in something:
https://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=10929

A CTFE dtor bug, blocks my efforts with std.regex for 2.065.

-- 
Dmitry Olshansky
Nov 15 2013
prev sibling next sibling parent "bearophile" <bearophileHUGS lycos.com> writes:
I remember a new tool to solve this problem, so perhaps this bug 
report should be closed.

https://www.bountysource.com/issues/1326911-dtoh-utility-convert-d-files-to-c-header-files


I think people have implemented a solution for this bug, but it 
caused problems:

https://www.bountysource.com/issues/1325912-comparing-signed-to-unsigned-does-not-generate-an-error

Bye,
bearophile
Nov 16 2013
prev sibling next sibling parent "Adam D. Ruppe" <destructionator gmail.com> writes:
https://www.bountysource.com/issues/1326911-dtoh-utility-convert-d-files-to-c-header-files

I'm pretty sure my little thing there actually works, and the 
only comment on it is stupid bullshit like spaces vs tabs. More 
capabilities are possible if dmd's json output improves, but 
what's there is pretty usable, at least for relatively simple 
things.

Have you given it a try yet? If so, please leave comments about 
what does and doesn't work!
Nov 16 2013
prev sibling parent John J <john.joyus gmail.com> writes:
On 11/16/2013 12:59 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

 We've chosen a representative collection of 23 bugs
 https://bountysource.com/trackers/383571-d-programming-language


Wow! This is cool! Besides getting the critical bugs fixed, it's a nice 
publicity for D language too, especially if it continuously hit the "Top 
Projects" list on bountysource home page.
Nov 16 2013