First round of Facebook bounties funded - have at it!

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

Hello,


We've chosen a representative collection of 23 bugs that are one or more 
of important, long-standing, difficult, unenjoyable to work on:

https://bountysource.com/trackers/383571-d-programming-language

A few have already people working on them (active pull requests etc); 
those will have priority in case submissions arrive at about the same 
time. Anyway, there's plenty to work on.

We at Facebook will monitor the evolution of these issues (and the 
project evolution in general) to assess whether adding bounties actually 
improves the process (accelerates the time to fix, improves overall 
participation, stimulates work on other areas of the project). One valid 
concern that organizations have is the negative effect - people may 
actually stop working on unpaid bugs in expectation for bounties to be 
put on them. Let's not let that happen!

I encourage everyone to focus on doing great work on improving the 
quality of D. If this experiment is successful, there will be a second 
round of funding. Please reply to this if you have any bugs you believe 
would be fit for bounties.


Thanks,

Andrei