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reply Imperatorn <johan_forsberg_86 hotmail.com> writes:
Well, I'll just say it:

- Please consider registering an account at issues.dlang.org and 
take a look. I just did so myself!

Maybe you can contribute be solving an issue? Even if it's just 
reporting a duplicate issue, it's invaluable to the community. A 
tip if you don't know where to start, is to filter using the 
"bootcamp" keyword. Those are bite-sized issues that should be 
reasonably easy to solve.

Here's the link:
https://issues.dlang.org/

Thanks! :)
Sep 21 2020
parent reply Imperatorn <johan_forsberg_86 hotmail.com> writes:
On Monday, 21 September 2020 at 21:59:09 UTC, Imperatorn wrote:

 Well, I'll just say it:

 - Please consider registering an account at issues.dlang.org 
 and take a look. I just did so myself!

 Maybe you can contribute be solving an issue? Even if it's just 
 reporting a duplicate issue, it's invaluable to the community. 
 A tip if you don't know where to start, is to filter using the 
 "bootcamp" keyword. Those are bite-sized issues that should be 
 reasonably easy to solve.

 Here's the link:
 https://issues.dlang.org/

 Thanks! :)


Anyone?
Sep 23 2020
next sibling parent reply Avrina <avrina12309412342 gmail.com> writes:
On Wednesday, 23 September 2020 at 20:40:56 UTC, Imperatorn wrote:

 On Monday, 21 September 2020 at 21:59:09 UTC, Imperatorn wrote:

 Well, I'll just say it:

 - Please consider registering an account at issues.dlang.org 
 and take a look. I just did so myself!

 Maybe you can contribute be solving an issue? Even if it's 
 just reporting a duplicate issue, it's invaluable to the 
 community. A tip if you don't know where to start, is to 
 filter using the "bootcamp" keyword. Those are bite-sized 
 issues that should be reasonably easy to solve.

 Here's the link:
 https://issues.dlang.org/

 Thanks! :)


 Anyone?


Most people here have probably already fixed a bug at one point 
or another. People that probably have never touched a compiler 
before, doing so out of necessity. From my experience a hacky 
workaround is a more palatable experience (sadly).
Sep 23 2020
parent Imperatorn <johan_forsberg_86 hotmail.com> writes:
On Wednesday, 23 September 2020 at 23:01:39 UTC, Avrina wrote:

 On Wednesday, 23 September 2020 at 20:40:56 UTC, Imperatorn 
 wrote:

 On Monday, 21 September 2020 at 21:59:09 UTC, Imperatorn wrote:

 [...]


 Anyone?


 Most people here have probably already fixed a bug at one point 
 or another. People that probably have never touched a compiler 
 before, doing so out of necessity. From my experience a hacky 
 workaround is a more palatable experience (sadly).


Understandable. Just trying to engage people 🍀
Sep 24 2020
prev sibling parent reply novice2 <sorry noem.ail> writes:
On Wednesday, 23 September 2020 at 20:40:56 UTC, Imperatorn wrote:

 Anyone?


IMHO, some "readme" or "howto" for beginners with example how to 
to make PR will be helpfull.
I am not expert, but may be, some begiiners like me can fix small 
issues.

But from other side, then read forum and see "ah, this this bug, 
i made PR at 2009" and see then it still not merged... may be my 
language barrier prevent me from understand this...
Sep 24 2020
next sibling parent reply Steven Schveighoffer <schveiguy gmail.com> writes:
On 9/24/20 11:06 AM, novice2 wrote:

 On Wednesday, 23 September 2020 at 20:40:56 UTC, Imperatorn wrote:

 Anyone?


 
 IMHO, some "readme" or "howto" for beginners with example how to to make 
 PR will be helpfull.


https://wiki.dlang.org/Get_involved


 But from other side, then read forum and see "ah, this this bug, i made 
 PR at 2009" and see then it still not merged... may be my language 
 barrier prevent me from understand this...


Pinging interested parties on old PRs that are still open would be a 
helpful contribution as well! Maybe they get closed, or maybe they get 
brought up to speed.

I have 100s of emails from github a day, relating to D. I delete most of 
them, because I don't have time to deal with them all. I can also 
contribute something to a PR (like a review), and forget about it after 
that, never merging. Pinging periodically is useful as a reminder.

-Steve
Sep 24 2020
parent bachmeier <no spam.net> writes:
On Thursday, 24 September 2020 at 15:17:32 UTC, Steven 
Schveighoffer wrote:

 On 9/24/20 11:06 AM, novice2 wrote:

 On Wednesday, 23 September 2020 at 20:40:56 UTC, Imperatorn 
 wrote:

 Anyone?


 
 IMHO, some "readme" or "howto" for beginners with example how 
 to to make PR will be helpfull.


 https://wiki.dlang.org/Get_involved


 But from other side, then read forum and see "ah, this this 
 bug, i made PR at 2009" and see then it still not merged... 
 may be my language barrier prevent me from understand this...


 Pinging interested parties on old PRs that are still open would 
 be a helpful contribution as well! Maybe they get closed, or 
 maybe they get brought up to speed.


Yep. Someone had an initiative related to issues last year and it 
reminded me of one (very simple, related to documentation) that I 
never finished.
Sep 24 2020
prev sibling parent reply bachmeier <no spam.net> writes:
On Thursday, 24 September 2020 at 15:06:25 UTC, novice2 wrote:

 On Wednesday, 23 September 2020 at 20:40:56 UTC, Imperatorn 
 wrote:

 Anyone?


 IMHO, some "readme" or "howto" for beginners with example how 
 to to make PR will be helpfull.
 I am not expert, but may be, some begiiners like me can fix 
 small issues.


You can indeed, in the documentation if not the code. I've 
submitted PRs every so often related to documentation and unit 
tests. It's not that hard. You can go through old issues and do 
things like reproduce the bug or confirm that it's no longer 
relevant.


 But from other side, then read forum and see "ah, this this 
 bug, i made PR at 2009" and see then it still not merged... may 
 be my language barrier prevent me from understand this...


Those are typically bigger PRs. When I submit small things like 
documentation or an update to a unit test, they're merged within 
a day or a few days at the most.
Sep 24 2020
parent "H. S. Teoh" <hsteoh quickfur.ath.cx> writes:
On Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 06:09:42PM +0000, bachmeier via Digitalmars-d wrote:

 On Thursday, 24 September 2020 at 15:06:25 UTC, novice2 wrote:


[...]

 But from other side, then read forum and see "ah, this this bug, i made
 PR at 2009" and see then it still not merged... may be my language
 barrier prevent me from understand this...


 
 Those are typically bigger PRs. When I submit small things like
 documentation or an update to a unit test, they're merged within a day
 or a few days at the most.


Yes, I recently submitted a couple of small PRs that got merged pretty
quickly.  The ones that get stuck generally have one or more of the
following challenges:

- The PR fails to pass the autotesters and CIs, and the submitter is
  slow to respond and/or not responding, so there's not much we can do
  about it;

- The changeset is large, therefore hard to review, so most reviewers
  (who are volunteers with limited free time) are less inclined to
  review them;

- The change requires expertise in a particular area to review correctly
  (e.g., deals with tricky concurrency issues, or OS details, or tricky
  pointer/memory manipulations or involves some complex spec like
  parsing some DSL, or floating-point algorithms that are tricky to
  write in a way that won't risk catastrophic loss of precision or wrong
  behaviour in corner cases).  If the area is too specialized, many
  reviewers feel unqualified to review it (probably rightly so), so it
  tends to get less attention that it should.

- The PR introduces some controversial bits of code that one or more
  reviewers may not agree on, or it breaks existing code in some way, or
  requires approval from the leadership (which generally takes a long
  time, and unfortunately requires a lot of persistence on the part of
  the submitter).


T

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MAS = Mana Ada Sistem?
Sep 24 2020