Facebook puts more bounties on dlang issues

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 1/12/14 10:31 AM, Iain Buclaw wrote:
> 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.

We all should. A good step: answer emails in which you're asked to "shut 
up and take my money".

Andrei