Developing a plan for D2.0: Getting everything on the table

[Michel Fortin]

On 2009-07-26 23:36:06 -0400, Benji Smith <dlanguage at benjismith.net> said:

> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> Benji Smith wrote:
>> Maybe if Andrei put together a list of
>>> missing Phobos functionality, we could get people from the community to 
>>> flesh out the libs.
>> 
>> I think we'd need at a minimum:
> 
> <snip>
> 
>> That would be great. In general, it would be awesome to gather more 
>> contributions from the community. There's a thirst to contribute and 
>> we'll be glad to involve this group into some serious design e.g. for 
>> concurrency support, as well as accept code for functionality that 
>> belongs to the standard library.
>> 
>> In the bulleted list above there are many mini-projects that are 
>> confined enough to be done by one willing individual in a relatively 
>> short time.
> 
> Are there contributor guidelines somewhere?

Funny. I started to write some guidelines a few months ago. Those were 
guidelines about how to name things consistently: like types should be 
camel-cased nouns possibly prefixed with adjectives starting with an 
uppercase; variables, getters, and setters should be camel-cased nouns 
starting with a lowercase; functions that perform an action should 
contain with a verb, short names should be avoided if they aren't 
meaningful, etc. Then I found that most of Phobos would have to change 
to fit my guidelines, and I couldn't come with anything sensible that 
would fit half of Phobos, so I gave up.

If someone's insterested, I can post them somewhere.

Unfortunatly, I wonder if this lack of guidelines is slowing 
contributions to Phobos, with everyone who aims at good integration 
wasting their time trying to figure out the rules.

-- 
Michel Fortin
michel.fortin at michelf.com
http://michelf.com/