Contributing to the compiler? Tracking suggestions?

[Bill Baxter]

I take it there's not enough DMD code provided to actually compile 
anything, right? There at least aren't any makefiles...  GDC is 
available for hacking, but how useful is a patch against GDC to Walter?

In general, what are the best ways to help keep this D-train on chugging 
forward?  Are compiler patches useful?  Library code?  Apps?  Wrappers? 
  Bug reports?

I guess what I'm looking for is a big fat "How can I help?" page 
somewhere.  It would make a good top-level page for Wiki4D, for instance.

As far as suggestions go, what's the best way to keep them from getting 
lost?  Wiki4D has a "proposals" section [1], but it's not very populated 
-- only 5, one of which I added, which is quite few considering that 
about that many suggestions show up on the newsgroup every week.

There's also the tracker for D [2], but a comment on one enhancement 
proposal I saw there says that the D issue tracker is reserved for 
suggestions that received positive feedback from Walter, but many good 
ideas are just ignored by Walter until like 90% the community jumps up 
and down about it simultaneously.

Finally there's the Unofficial D Wish List [3], but that seems to be 
rather out of date/seldom pruned, as it includes old things like "add 
opIn", duplicates ("System.Windows.Forms"), and just irrelevant things 
like "This list makes a difference?".

--bb

[1]  http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?IdeaDiscussion
[2]  http://d.puremagic.com/issues/
[3]  http://www.all-technology.com/eigenpolls/dwishlist/