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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