Cool Stuff for D that we keep Secret

[Kiith-Sa via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 10 July 2014 at 19:11:39 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> On 7/9/14, 12:21 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
>> Vladimir's talk on Dustmite is now up on Reddit. We ship 
>> Dustmite as
>> part of the dmd distribution.
>>
>> But it's a secret.
>>
>> Just try to find out anything or any mention of Dustmite on 
>> dlang.org.
>>
>> The idea "Build It, and They Will Come" is a stupid hollywood 
>> myth. We
>> cannot go on with creating fantastic, revolutionary tools and 
>> then keep
>> them a secret.
>>
>> Dustmite is just one example of this, but it's on top of my 
>> head because
>> I went looking for a link to it to go with the Reddit pointer 
>> to the
>> video. It fits in quite nicely with my previous antics at 
>> discovering
>> there were no links to gdc or ldc instructions, and no mention 
>> anywhere
>> that to get gdc on Ubuntu, one only needs to type:
>>
>>    sudo apt-get install gdc
>>
>> All you guys building stuff - it's all WASTED EFFORT if you 
>> don't make
>> it findable by users. /rant
>
> This post underlines a few of my frustrations as well, which 
> I'll share with the intent of producing a positive effect.
>
> There are a few things each and any of us can do, starting with 
> the simplest and utmost trivial, to help D succeed (which is I 
> assume the shared goal of all of our regular participants).
>
> * Shed the provincialism. The implied provincialism in this 
> forum - which is but a microcosm - is staggering. There's a 
> good fight of ideas and thousands of hours cumulatively spent 
> on writing posts, often with great technical content. There 
> seems to be no understanding that statistically nobody in the 
> larger community lurks here; nobody peruses the forum to get 
> the pulse of language development; nobody comes here to read 
> technical pieces about D. The forum activity should be planning 
> followed by "going out" and doing things.
>
> The simplest thing do for each and every member of this 
> community is to have accounts on all social news sites 
> (twitter, facebook, reddit, hackernews) and discuss _there_ 
> things instead of replying to announcements internally. I 
> recall some of us haven't even brought themselves to check 
> digitalmars.D.announce although they are active on 
> digitalmars.D - this is crazy!
>
> It has often been the case that Walter and I (again!) hold the 
> fort on public discussions on D, while most of the others 
> discuss the same topics on the forums.
>
> * Get on pull requests. I can't say this much enough. If you 
> wrote some, ping about it. If you see some you care about, 
> review it even if you don't have rights yet. A simple message 
> such as "I reviewed this and LGTM, any holdup?" would be 
> sufficient to attract attention.
>
> If you feel experienced enough, ask to be included as a 
> committer. (I plan to lower the bar on committer acceptance; 
> with git it's easy to undo mistakes and we should exercise due 
> process on firing, not accepting, committers.)
>
> * Steal work. Whenever there's something obviously good to be 
> done, don't expect Walter or me to do it. Don't suggest. Don't 
> dispense advice (especially of the management drone kind - 
> seriously, STFU). Just do it. There's just a FRACKTON of simple 
> and obviously good work to be done here. Get on it.
>
>
> Andrei

I added a "Review pull requests" section in the "Get involved" 
page at DWiki. Please use some time otherwise spent on frustrated 
forum posts and improve it (considering my contributions to 
Phobos are minimal, there's probably some bullshit/missing 
obvious stuff)

The "Get Involved" page:
http://wiki.dlang.org/Get_involved
Edit the "Review pull requests" section:
http://wiki.dlang.org/?title=Get_involved&action=edit&section=5