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reply "Michael" <pongad gmail.com> writes:
Hello all! I've been programming in D for my school projects for 
a while and would like to contribute to the community if 
possible. Can anyone give me any pointers as to where I might be 
able to start? I tried searching for 
so-trivial-give-to-new-people tag but didn't find any :o) I don't 
have much experience with standard libraries or compilers, but I 
guess we all have to start somewhere! Being here looks like I'll 
be learning from the best.
Feb 27 2014
next sibling parent reply "Mike" <none none.com> writes:
On Friday, 28 February 2014 at 03:54:27 UTC, Michael wrote:

 Hello all! I've been programming in D for my school projects 
 for a while and would like to contribute to the community if 
 possible. Can anyone give me any pointers as to where I might 
 be able to start? I tried searching for 
 so-trivial-give-to-new-people tag but didn't find any :o) I 
 don't have much experience with standard libraries or 
 compilers, but I guess we all have to start somewhere! Being 
 here looks like I'll be learning from the best.


Coincidentally, see the current discussion taking place on the 
Announce list[1].  We'll see what comes of that discussion.  
Maybe nothing.

* GDC has a Project Ideas page [2]
* LDC has a Contributor's Guide [3]
* The bugtracker has 3400 open issues.  Take your pick [4]

I'm new to D as well.  I'm making pull requests to update some of 
the neglected documentation [5] as I learn .  And I've also taken 
on my own project, not only to learn D, but to also provide 
something that hasn't been done before.

Certainly more helpful articles, tutorials, etc... on the wiki 
[5] would be a great way to help others, and would benefit you as 
well as it would exercise your own programming chops.

Mike

[1] 
http://forum.dlang.org/post/mailman.8.1393539926.2862.digitalmars-d-announce puremagic.com
[2] http://wiki.dlang.org/GDC/ProjectIdeas
[3] http://wiki.dlang.org/LDC_contributor%27s_guide
[4] http://dlang.org/bugstats.php
[5] https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dlang.org
Feb 27 2014
next sibling parent "Michael" <pongad gmail.com> writes:
Thanks Mike, I'll give it a shot!

On Friday, 28 February 2014 at 04:14:44 UTC, Mike wrote:

 On Friday, 28 February 2014 at 03:54:27 UTC, Michael wrote:

 Hello all! I've been programming in D for my school projects 
 for a while and would like to contribute to the community if 
 possible. Can anyone give me any pointers as to where I might 
 be able to start? I tried searching for 
 so-trivial-give-to-new-people tag but didn't find any :o) I 
 don't have much experience with standard libraries or 
 compilers, but I guess we all have to start somewhere! Being 
 here looks like I'll be learning from the best.


 Coincidentally, see the current discussion taking place on the 
 Announce list[1].  We'll see what comes of that discussion.  
 Maybe nothing.

 * GDC has a Project Ideas page [2]
 * LDC has a Contributor's Guide [3]
 * The bugtracker has 3400 open issues.  Take your pick [4]

 I'm new to D as well.  I'm making pull requests to update some 
 of the neglected documentation [5] as I learn .  And I've also 
 taken on my own project, not only to learn D, but to also 
 provide something that hasn't been done before.

 Certainly more helpful articles, tutorials, etc... on the wiki 
 [5] would be a great way to help others, and would benefit you 
 as well as it would exercise your own programming chops.

 Mike

 [1] 
 http://forum.dlang.org/post/mailman.8.1393539926.2862.digitalmars-d-announce puremagic.com
 [2] http://wiki.dlang.org/GDC/ProjectIdeas
 [3] http://wiki.dlang.org/LDC_contributor%27s_guide
 [4] http://dlang.org/bugstats.php
 [5] https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dlang.org
Feb 27 2014
prev sibling parent "Gary Willoughby" <dev nomad.so> writes:
On Friday, 28 February 2014 at 04:14:44 UTC, Mike wrote:

 I'm new to D as well.  I'm making pull requests to update some 
 of the neglected documentation [5] as I learn .  And I've also 
 taken on my own project, not only to learn D, but to also 
 provide something that hasn't been done before.

 Certainly more helpful articles, tutorials, etc... on the wiki 
 [5] would be a great way to help others, and would benefit you 
 as well as it would exercise your own programming chops.


Yes, contributions to the documentation and wiki would be very 
helpful.
Feb 28 2014
prev sibling parent "Rikki Cattermole" <alphaglosined gmail.com> writes:
On Friday, 28 February 2014 at 03:54:27 UTC, Michael wrote:

 Hello all! I've been programming in D for my school projects 
 for a while and would like to contribute to the community if 
 possible. Can anyone give me any pointers as to where I might 
 be able to start? I tried searching for 
 so-trivial-give-to-new-people tag but didn't find any :o) I 
 don't have much experience with standard libraries or 
 compilers, but I guess we all have to start somewhere! Being 
 here looks like I'll be learning from the best.


If you want to help with ApplyYourDLang[0] it would be greatly 
appreciated.
And if you want to have some fun with ASN.1 [1] I would greatly 
appreciate it, to help implementation of an ldap client.

[0] http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCz3NlrGpjV9NlJAhKJLu_-w
[1] https://github.com/rikkimax/asn1
Feb 28 2014