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digitalmars.D - D library contest ideas

reply =?iso-8859-1?q?Knud_S=F8rensen?= <12tkvvb02 sneakemail.com> writes:
Hi

The idea about a D code contest have been raised before 
but nothing have been made jet.

I think that a code contest would be a good way to promote D 
and if it is made right it may also give the D community 
some good code libraries .

Here is some ideas on how such a contest could be.

1) We make a open money pool where everybody can donate. 
2) To participate you have to write a D library of your own choice.
3) The first deadline is 4 month from the start.
At this deadline the libraries is released to the D community 
under a open source license so that the write can get feedback from the
community.

4) The last deadline is after 6 month from the start 
and here the final version is send to the contest committee.

5) After the committee have found the winners the money pool 
is divided with 
1/2 of the money to 1. place, 
1/4 to 2. place 
1/8 to 3. place
1/16 to 4. place
etc.

6) Then the best libraries is add to the standard lib 
and D 1.0 is released :-) 
7) The the contest is repeated for D 2.0.

Ps.) 
This post where made late at night so please ignore all the errors.
Feb 09 2006
parent =?iso-8859-1?q?Knud_S=F8rensen?= <12tkvvb02 sneakemail.com> writes:
Andrew Fedoniouk andrew-at-terrainformatica.com |News| wrote:


 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Knud Sørensen" <12tkvvb02 sneakemail.com>
 Newsgroups: digitalmars.D
 Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2006 3:00 PM
 Subject: D library contest ideas



 Hi

 The idea about a D code contest have been raised before
 but nothing have been made jet.

 I think that a code contest would be a good way to promote D
 and if it is made right it may also give the D community
 some good code libraries .

 Here is some ideas on how such a contest could be.

 1) We make a open money pool where everybody can donate.
 2) To participate you have to write a D library of your own choice.
 3) The first deadline is 4 month from the start.
 At this deadline the libraries is released to the D community
 under a open source license so that the write can get feedback from the
 community.

 4) The last deadline is after 6 month from the start
 and here the final version is send to the contest committee.

 5) After the committee have found the winners the money pool
 is divided with
 1/2 of the money to 1. place,
 1/4 to 2. place
 1/8 to 3. place
 1/16 to 4. place
 etc.

 6) Then the best libraries is add to the standard lib
 and D 1.0 is released :-)
 7) The the contest is repeated for D 2.0.

 Ps.)
 This post where made late at night so please ignore all the errors.


 Nice idea. But I think that it makes sense to outline
 area of such libraries somehow. Library for the Go game is
 probably make sense, but I think that lets say IDE (as a library) makes
 more sense at this point.

 Andrew.


Here I kindly disagree :-)

I don't think the a Go expert which would write a Go library
would magical transform into a IDE expert just because 
Go libs wasn't allowed.
So the only thing such or similar limit would achieve would be 
to prevent the D community from having a Go library.

And the limit wouldn't encourage the Go expert to try D 
and discover, which a fine language it is.
 
 
So, I don't think we should limit the area but
I do think that a IDE lib would stand a better chance of winning.

But we might tell them that the libs should be written with 
unit testing in mind or other similar goals.
Feb 10 2006