<div>>Hi everyone,</div><div>></div><div>>I'm very excited to announce that Philippe's excellent work on dranges </div><div>>and his display of overall expertise earned him the well-deserved right</div>
<div>> to commit to Phobos (after checking with me, greenhorn :o)). </div><div>> Philippe, you're the fifteenth member on the Phobos roster. </div><div>> I see you're already on <a href="mailto:phobos@puremagic.com">phobos@puremagic.com</a>, so you're good to go.</div>
<div>></div><div>>Please join me in congratulating Philippe!</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks Andrei, thanks everyone in the Phobos ML for accepting me!</div><div><br></div><div>It'll be a pleasure to participate in all the good stuff I see over there!</div>
<div><br></div><div>Andrei, I already have a dsource account and currently use svn under Windows (Vista) and linux (Kubuntu 10.04, but I do not have dmd installed there). Rest assured, I do not intend to break Phobos from day one :o)</div>
<div><br></div><div>I don't know if that's customary to present oneself here? I'm 36 yo (ouch), happily married for more than 10 years, father of three children (6 yo, 3 yo, 8 months). I got a PhD 10 years ago on organic LED, the kind you now all have on you, but was 10-by-6 green pixels back then :o)</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Things I'd like to help with:</div><div><br></div><div>* Phobos code, obviously, notably std.algorithm, functional, traits, range, typecons, container, string, numeric, array, typetuple, maybe variant... I'm feeling more or less confident on these, and totally incompetent on any other :o) I will not touch core.*, even with a 10-ft pole. Anyway, I guess it's not part of Phobos proper.</div>
<div><br></div><div>* Improving the documentation & examples for Phobos. I feel like most functions and templates should have an example, if only a one liner. As an aside, some modules could have satellite articles attached to them, with a more developed example exercising the module, for example in dmd/samples -> /container, /string etc. Reading the docs is good, seeing more than a one-liner is even better.</div>
<div><br></div><div>* unit tests...</div><div><br></div><div>* Cleaning the DMD examples up: maybe putting some of the useful scripts you like so much? Also, see above for my proposition to have more extended examples for some modules.</div>
<div><br></div><div>* Updating the website documentation, if that's OK with Walter. I feel like some people on the main ML could be invaluable in this.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>And... I'm going on holidays in a few hours, in a place where I fear Internet access is not perfect ( <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mont_blanc">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mont_blanc</a> ). I won't bother you for some time.</div>
<div><br></div><div>cheers,</div><div><br></div><div>Philippe</div><div><br></div>