Ideas for students' summer projects

[Mike Franklin]

On Tuesday, 22 May 2018 at 16:27:05 UTC, Eduard Staniloiu wrote:

> Let the brainstorming begin!

Find a way to improve the performance of our CIs.  See 
https://forum.dlang.org/post/mailman.1018.1526887297.29801.digitalmars-d@puremagic.com

The more time a PR is "green" the higher the likelihood it will 
be reviewed.  Having a more performant CI infrastructure could 
help with our review bottleneck, and also make the experience for 
contributors less frustrating.

GDC is using Buildbot (https://buildbot.net/) for some of its 
CIs.  I've been wondering if it might be less costly and more 
performant to create a distributed Buildbot CI for the dlang 
repositories, and allow community members volunteer their 
hardware resources to bring down the cost and increase the 
throughput of our testing.

Mike