SDC needs you

Joakim via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Thu Apr 16 20:20:26 PDT 2015


On Friday, 17 April 2015 at 01:53:47 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 4/15/2015 10:07 PM, Joakim wrote:
>> I understand that it's frustrating to get stuff done on a 
>> decentralized open
>> source project, but you have to help contributors a bit in 
>> order for them to
>> help you.  Your [WORK] appeals have been a great step- I had 
>> one of them open in
>> my browser to remind me to get to it, but Walter beat me to 
>> it- but the forum is
>> not easy to keep track of and navigate for newbies. How much 
>> harder would it be
>> for you to stick all those in a single wiki page, to make it 
>> easier for noobs to
>> find and easy for us to point them at?  That's all I'm asking 
>> for.
>
> Ask and ye shall receive:
>
> https://issues.dlang.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&bugidtype=include&list_id=200235&order=Bug%20Number&query_format=advanced

That's precisely _not_ what I asked for.  The full results for 
that query numbers 3801 issues:

https://issues.dlang.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&bugidtype=include&limit=0&list_id=200235&order=bug_id&query_format=advanced

How is somebody new supposed to figure out where to start?  Set 
some priorities and people will follow your lead, ie flag issues 
that you think should be prioritized, given your greater 
understanding of the project, and make it easy for those who want 
to pitch in to find your list, as deadalnix just did.


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