[OT] LLVM Community Code of Conduct

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 10/17/2015 2:24 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
> I wish the extent of platform support for GDC and LDC was clearer. I
> decided not to list any platforms on D's download page unless support
> for those platforms was rock-solid and is expected to work.
>
> At least at that time, iOS and Android support, as I understood it, was
> in the "well, if you download this thing some guy uploaded to his
> personal website and patch that file and don't do this thing which
> doesn't work yet, you might get a "hello world" that runs from the
> terminal if you SSH in" ballpark. I'm not sure we should be advertising
> support for any platform at that level. Personally, I feel that if a
> platform/architecture is listed on a language's download page, I should
> be able to download the compiler and build a fully-working application
> within a few minutes, and as I understand we are nowhere close to that
> yet. I don't feel particularly strong about this, but if we do decide to
> lower the bar, then we should reconsider all the other platforms that
> have been left out (such as the long list of GDC architectures which I
> understood Iain to say that, well, since the build succeeds and Debian
> successfully packages it, then it has to work. I might be wrong, though,
> which is my point exactly - there is really insufficient information
> about what exactly one can expect to work on each platform/architecture
> (and their combinations).

I think it'll be alright if these are clearly marked as unofficial and 
alpha quality, and perhaps with a blurb with some details on what it's 
state actually is, like "compiles hello world".