GSoC 2018 - Your project ideas

[Craig Dillabaugh]

On Monday, 11 December 2017 at 09:14:29 UTC, Martin Tschierschke 
wrote:
> On Friday, 8 December 2017 at 06:43:22 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky 
> wrote:
>> On Thursday, 7 December 2017 at 22:26:08 UTC, Bastiaan Veelo 
>> wrote:
>>> On Tuesday, 5 December 2017 at 18:20:40 UTC, Seb wrote:
>>>> I am looking forward to hearing (1) what you think can be 
>>>> done in three months by a student and (2) will have a huge 
>>>> impact on the D ecosystem.
>>>>
>>>> [2] https://wiki.dlang.org/GSOC_2018_Ideas
>>>
>>> I see there is a dub section in [2]. Maybe another issue that 
>>> has been brought up repeatedly fits in that category, namely 
>>> extending code.dlang.org in various ways?
>>
>> +1111
>>
>> Indeed enhancing user experience of code.dlang.org such as 
>> showing github stars and e.g. downloads per month would be way 
>> more important then build tool itself.
>
> +10^^4
>
> I recommend to add a "donate for button", and to evaluate and 
> visualize how many people are donating, for a certain package. 
> This might give strong evidence where to invest more time - man 
> power.
> In the first step the D Foundation should get all money and 
> should try to use it to support the most often selected 
> packages, to avoid loosing focus.

Martin, I am replying to your post specifically, but this reply 
is targeted at the 'code.dlang.org' discussion in general.

Improvements to code.dlang.org are going to be borderline 
ineligible for a GSoC project.  Any such project would have to be 
carefully crafted so that it is a development project and not a 
website maintenance/upgrading project. In any case this work can 
likely be made into something valid, but the project would need 
involve a cohesive development effort and not a series of minor 
improvements (even if they mostly involved coding).