Idea #1 on integrating RC with GC

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 2/11/14, 12:31 PM, Joseph Cassman wrote:
> Although I haven't yet contributed to the project by sending any pull
> requests I am interested in doing so. Perhaps the main thing that keeps
> holding me back is I feel it is hard to know what currently is being
> worked on with the current setup (i.e. who is doing what, will my
> efforts duplicate someone else's, will I be stepping on anyone's toes,
> will my solution idea be incompatible with the direction in which the
> language is moving). I frequent the forums and still find it hard to get
> an overall picture. This is probably my lack of not trying hard enough
> (e.g. I never have time to spend on IRC). I saw the Trello board before
> and I felt that it helped me get up to speed on who is doing what, what
> is being worked on, etc. If you brought it, or something like it, back
> that would be appreciated.

Thanks for the feedback. Hanging out on IRC should not be necessary.

> Sorry to change the subject but one thing that keeps discouraging me
> from trying to contribute code changes is the large number of unmerged
> pull requests in GitHub.

Yes. I think that's a disaster. We need to figure out the right approach 
to solving that.

> Since I am not a reviewer I am afraid that any
> effort I perform will get ignored and so I hold back since I have other
> stuff to do too. I know that this is something that concerns you a lot
> from reading other forums discussions so I apologize if this sounds like
> a complaint. I appreciate the work of all involved and know that no one
> has infinite time or energy. Not even sure if I could contribute to the
> code-base but would be nice to try.
>
> Managing a project is never easy. My hat's off to you and Walter for
> your efforts in that regard.

Thanks! We're doing best we can but I am convinced we can do a lot 
better, and am looking at some out-of-the-box things to try.


Andrei