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digitalmars.D.announce - Two New Manpower Initiatives

reply Mike Parker <aldacron gmail.com> writes:
I've just published a post on the blog introducing two new 
initiatives, the Manpower Share and the Manpower Fund, that came 
out of our quarterly D Language Foundation meetings. The goal is 
to help focus energy on getting more effort directed at the 
issues that fall by the wayside. The blog post has all the 
details, so I encourage everyone who cares about improving D and 
its ecosystem to give it a read.

The blog:
https://dlang.org/blog/2019/04/15/manpower-in-the-d-ecosystem-or-resources-resources-resources/

Reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/d_language/comments/bde7zq/manpower_in_the_d_ecosystem_or_resources/
Apr 15 2019
next sibling parent reply =?UTF-8?Q?Christian_K=c3=b6stlin?= <christian.koestlin gmail.com> writes:
On 15.04.19 12:08, Mike Parker wrote:

 ...
 The blog:
 https://dlang.org/blog/2019/04/15/manpower-in-the-d-ecosystem-or-resources-
esources-resources/ 
 ...


On of the options to contribute to the d language foundation is amazon 
smile. Is there a way to also have amazon smile enabled for e.g. amazon.de?

cK
Apr 15 2019
parent Mike Parker <aldacron gmail.com> writes:
On Monday, 15 April 2019 at 17:41:03 UTC, Christian Köstlin wrote:

 On 15.04.19 12:08, Mike Parker wrote:

 ...
 The blog:
 https://dlang.org/blog/2019/04/15/manpower-in-the-d-ecosystem-or-resources-
esources-resources/ ...


 On of the options to contribute to the d language foundation is 
 amazon smile. Is there a way to also have amazon smile enabled 
 for e.g. amazon.de?

 cK


Unfortunately, if smile is available at the .de domain, the D 
Language Foundation will not be. The .com domain is restricted to 
US-based organizations, the .co.uk domain to UK-based 
organizations, etc.
Apr 17 2019
prev sibling next sibling parent aberba <karabutaworld gmail.com> writes:
On Monday, 15 April 2019 at 10:08:31 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:

 I've just published a post on the blog introducing two new 
 initiatives, the Manpower Share and the Manpower Fund, that 
 came out of our quarterly D Language Foundation meetings. The 
 goal is to help focus energy on getting more effort directed at 
 the issues that fall by the wayside. The blog post has all the 
 details, so I encourage everyone who cares about improving D 
 and its ecosystem to give it a read.

 The blog:
 https://dlang.org/blog/2019/04/15/manpower-in-the-d-ecosystem-or-resources-resources-resources/

 Reddit:
 https://www.reddit.com/r/d_language/comments/bde7zq/manpower_in_the_d_ecosystem_or_resources/


I'm proud of the ever increasing momentum being put behind D.
Apr 16 2019
prev sibling next sibling parent reply Jacob Carlborg <doob me.com> writes:
On 2019-04-15 12:08, Mike Parker wrote:

 I've just published a post on the blog introducing two new initiatives, 
 the Manpower Share and the Manpower Fund, that came out of our quarterly 
 D Language Foundation meetings. The goal is to help focus energy on 
 getting more effort directed at the issues that fall by the wayside. The 
 blog post has all the details, so I encourage everyone who cares about 
 improving D and its ecosystem to give it a read.


Looking at the Ecosystem Task List, I had expected something more 
specific than just "close as many bugs as possible" for various projects.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg
Apr 17 2019
parent Mike Parker <aldacron gmail.com> writes:
On Wednesday, 17 April 2019 at 18:51:19 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:


 Looking at the Ecosystem Task List, I had expected something 
 more specific than just "close as many bugs as possible" for 
 various projects.


That's how I initially envisioned it. But on reflection, that's 
probably not the best way to go about it. The time available is 
extremely limited. Specific tasks need to be trivial enough to be 
completed within a single workday. That's a broad category. That 
would mean populating the list with a bunch of issues from the 
priority projects. Which issues? All of them that fit? Then why 
put them on the list at all? Just let the tasked worker sort 
through the project's issues page. They're in a better position 
than I am to judge how long it should take them to finish a lot 
of those items anyway.

But this is just to seed the list and get us started. Anyone can 
suggest specific tasks to add to it and submit an issue or a PR. 
I expect such tasks to be added as time goes by.
Apr 17 2019
prev sibling parent Piotrek <thereisnone thereisnone.net> writes:
On Monday, 15 April 2019 at 10:08:31 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:

 I've just published a post on the blog introducing two new 
 initiatives, the Manpower Share and the Manpower Fund, that 
 came out of our quarterly D Language Foundation meetings. The 
 goal is to help focus energy on getting more effort directed at 
 the issues that fall by the wayside. The blog post has all the 
 details, so I encourage everyone who cares about improving D 
 and its ecosystem to give it a read.

 The blog:
 https://dlang.org/blog/2019/04/15/manpower-in-the-d-ecosystem-or-resources-resources-resources/

 Reddit:
 https://www.reddit.com/r/d_language/comments/bde7zq/manpower_in_the_d_ecosystem_or_resources/


Great write-up. IMO, the direction is right and looks promising. 
Of course, besides me only talking, I'm aware that something 
material can be done. And hopefully, I won't miss a chance ;)

Cheers,
Piotrek
Apr 18 2019