Google Summer of Code

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Regan Heath" <regan at netmail.co.nz> wrote in message 
news:op.vrvpztmj54xghj at regan-pc...
> On Thu, 03 Mar 2011 20:19:52 -0000, Andrei Alexandrescu 
> <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:
>
>> On 3/3/11 2:08 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
>>> Regan Heath wrote:
>>>> Ok, found the original code. How do I go about submitting it to phobos?
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> I suggest:
>>>
>>> 1. Join the phobos mailing list
>>> 2. Propose package and module names
>>> 3. Fork https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos
>>> 4. Check your original code into your fork under those package and
>>> module names
>>> 5. Develop them!
>>> 6. Issue pull requests
>>>
>>> I'm a newbie with github, but I think that is the correct workflow.
>>> Correct me if I'm wrong!
>>
>> That's the technical part of it. The bulk of the process is making a 
>> proposal on this group and having the design, implementation, and 
>> documentation discussed and improved following feedback.
>>
>> If Regan does not have the time to commit to such, he could donate the 
>> code to someone else to take it through this process. Alternatively, if 
>> some components are small enough and of obvious value they can be 
>> adopted without going through a stringent process.
>>
>> What definitely doesn't scale is Phobos acquiring unfinished pieces of 
>> functionality, knocking them into shape, and subsequently maintaining 
>> them. (Of course, it could happen that someone on the Phobos team does 
>> that, but by doing so the member becomes the virtual owner of that 
>> functionality.)
>
> Ok.. I am on windows.  So, I installed TortoiseGIT and msysgit 1.7.4. 
> Then I worked on the original code, make it compile with the latest D 
> compiler, fixed some big endian issues which were known but never 
> accounted for in the original code, fixed a bug where I was passing a 
> uint[8] and expecting modification to stick, whereas it now requires 'ref' 
> then I started adding comments for ddoc .. and ran into:
>
> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=5701
>
> I thought perhaps I could resolve it myself by rebuilding druntime+phobos, 
> and when that made no difference I rebuilt dmd.. also to no avail.  I 
> guess I can downgrade to a previous version and try that, but I have no 
> guarantee that will work.  It's a bit annoying.
>
> Anyway, assuming I have some code and some documentation do I just start a 
> new thread here and ask for comments?
>

It's an unintentionally well-kept secret that builing docs needs to be done 
as a separate step from actual compiling (due to version(DDOC) tricks).