How to contribute to GC?

John Colvin john.loughran.colvin at gmail.com
Fri Jan 10 12:26:01 PST 2014


On Friday, 10 January 2014 at 20:22:45 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> On 1/10/14 12:06 PM, Rainer Schuetze wrote:
>> I have just rebased and recreated the precise GC fork of 
>> druntime the
>> other day: 
>> https://github.com/rainers/druntime/commits/gcx_precise2
>> I hope this has commits that are better reviewable than the 
>> last
>> version. I was planning to create a pull request just to make 
>> it more
>> public and get the ball rolling.
>>
>> What's blocking the inclusion is that the compiler does not 
>> generate
>> proper type information. This pull request is trying to fix it:
>> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/2480
>> but it often breaks with other commits.
>>
>> Unfortunately it never received any feedback apart from some
>> code-styling notes.
>
> Thanks! If there's anything major the community could help with 
> right now, it would be reviewing 
> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/2480 and 
> then https://github.com/rainers/druntime/commits/gcx_precise2.
>
>
> Andrei

Is there perhaps the need for a curated* list of top priority 
pulls that need reviewing?

*by yourself and walter, with perhaps a few other contributors 
who pull some weight.


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