Ch-ch-changes

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2012-09-26 00:10, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> Hello all,
>
>
> There's quite a few changes that we're very excited about, that I'd love
> to share to the extent possible.
>
> First, we have decided to extend commit rights to Daniel Murphy and
> Martin Nowak, two heavyweight dmd contributors better known under their
> noms de plume: yebblies and dawgfoto, respectively. Please join me in
> congratulating them for this token of appreciation for their talent and
> hard work.

That's awesome.

> We want to move dmd forward faster, and we're encouraging committers to
> be more aggressive about reviewing and merging patches. Language changes
> will still have to get through Scylla and Charybdis (that's Walter and
> yours truly), but bug fixes and other non-controversial work can be
> safely parallelized.

Sounds good.

> Here's a small draft to guide contributors to the compiler proper:
> http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?Contributing_To_The_D_Compiler.
> It's mostly authored by Don, and we should all add to it sections and
> topics that we consider relevant. At a later point we'll link to the
> document from the website, or integrate it there.

This should really be moved to a "Contribute" section on dlang.org. I've 
been thinking about writing that section a couple of times but I have 
not done so yet.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg