Is it time for a unicode update of std.uni?

Robert M. Münch robert.muench at saphirion.com
Mon May 4 12:22:37 UTC 2020


On 2020-05-04 09:52:29 +0000, Mike Parker said:

> There's a link to the "Donate" page in the Community menu on the 
> dlang.org site.

Hi Mike, just giving some feedback how things could be improved/what 
confused me. That's the one I used.

> There's also a button in the top-third of the main page labeled 
> "Donate" that takes you to it. On that page, we list several different 
> ways to donate money and provide contact information for anyone who 
> wants to sponsor a specific project.

Ok, re-read the page and finally found it in between other text at the 
bottom...

"If you have a specific target or project that you wish to directly 
support, please contact the D Language Foundation."

* Remove the info about the D foundation at the top, it's a duplication 
of the "About the Foundation".

* Before "How can I donate?" I think it makes sense to state the 
contact sentence and give an overview how the process works.

Then my miss-understanding comes from:

* The flipcause section states: "You can choose to donate to our 
General Fund or to a specific campaign." I can see the general fund 
button (BTW: make it first, because you mention it first in the text) 
but no button for "specific campaign".

* Clicking "Human Resource Fund for D Ecosystem Tasks" or "D Language 
Foundation General Fund" makes it a  bit more clear what this is about. 
How about adding these descriptions directly to the donate page? Less 
clicks to result.

* "Donations to this fund will be put toward ...." - Who decides about 
for what the money is used? Is progressed tracked? Is this mile-stone 
based? How frequent is progress tracked, reported? Are people informed 
about progress? How and where?


> I've also written about it on the blog more than once, sharing it here, 
> on FB, Twitter, and reddit, and will continue to do so now and again so 
> folks who missed it might see it and those who saw it won't forget it. 
> Any suggestions to make any of this easier to find are welcome.

Great, how about putting refernces to this directly at the top of the page?

> What Fynn was referring to was the Task Bounty system I've set up at 
> FlipCause. You can read about it here under the old "Bug Bounties" 
> title: https://dlang.org/blog/2019/08/17/bug-bounties-have-arrived/
> 
> and here: 
> https://dlang.org/blog/2019/10/04/d-language-foundation-funding-new-platforms-new-bounties/ 
> 
> 
> (Neither of these is mentioned on the Donate page, so there's something 
> that needs doing.)
> 
> The short of it: anyone can seed a new bounty by going to the Task 
> Bounty page at:
> 
> https://www.flipcause.com/secure/cause_pdetails/NjI2Njg=

I didn't found any way from the sponsor page to this bounty page. I 
clicked "Check Out Our Other Compaigns" and clicked to show all 
compaigns. For the ones with a bugzilla number I don't have a clue what 
these are about. Hence, I have to click through all of them and 
remember what it was about... It's not so easy to get a single page 
overview.

> And clicking the first item in the list, "Task Bounty Catch-All" that 
> has the "Add Bounty" button.

That the "Task Bounty Catch-All" is the one to use for new bounties is, 
at least for me, not clear. Again, I think a short description how this 
is intended right at the top of the dontate page would help a lot.

> Enter the amount you'd like to donate to seed the bounty and provide a 
> description in the comment field on the donation for (or email the 
> details to me at aldacron at gmail.com) and I'll set up a specific bounty 
> for it.
> 
> It you first submit an Issue to bugzilla (in this case, an enhancement 
> request to update std.uni) and refer to the issue number when you seed 
> the bounty, that will give us a way to track it.

Ok, gain, just add this on the donate page.

> Otherwise, contact the email on the donate page if you'd like to 
> discuss something more elaborate. That will go straight to Andrei.

Ok, again... please note that.

If someon want to sponsor a decent amount this is IMO critical 
information. If I sponsor $100 it doens't matter, if I want to sponsor 
$1000 or more it does.

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Robert M. Münch
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