Facebook puts more bounties on dlang issues

[Iain Buclaw]

On 12 January 2014 17:44, Andrei Alexandrescu
<SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:
> On 1/12/14 4:50 AM, Johannes Pfau wrote:
>>
>> Am Sun, 12 Jan 2014 11:32:04 +0000
>> schrieb Iain Buclaw <ibuclaw at gdcproject.org>:
>>
>>> On 12 January 2014 00:19, Andrei Alexandrescu
>>> <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I've placed on behalf of Facebook a few more bounties on D-related
>>>> issues. There's a bit of budget (a few hundred only) earmarked for
>>>> GDC- and LDC-specific stuff. I didn't hear anything from Iain
>>>> Buclaw (what's happening?) and am discussing with Kai Nacke the
>>>> best angle of attack regarding LDC issues.
>>
>>
>> I guess the last missing pieces in GDC (apart from specific bugs)
>> are  NRVO, exception chaining and LTO. I probably won't work
>> on any of these issues though, that stuff is too complicated for
>> me ;-)
>>
>> But if we could get some new contributors because of these bounties
>> that'd be even better :-)
>
>
> One organizational/communication problem for me is that I've never been able
> to grasp where GDC is, what the milestones for integrations are, what the
> related issues are, and how to get from where we are to where we should.
> I've communicated with Iain over forum, email, IRC, Skype, and to be very
> honest I am unable to get simple answers to these simple questions (my
> accent was an issue in Skype communication). One thing I do recall is that
> Iain mentioned (I'm paraphrasing) that he hopes to underpromise and
> overdeliver, i.e. just finish integration instead of bragging about it
> before it being done. The unfortunate recoil from that is that I have no
> idea where he is in the process, and whether he could use any help.
>

We need to work on our communication.  Which probably means:  I need
to work on my communication.