$750 Bounty: Issue 16416 - Phobos std.uni out of date (should be updated to latest Unicode standard)

[Robert M. Münch]

On 2020-05-05 15:39:12 +0000, Dmitry Olshansky said:

> On Monday, 4 May 2020 at 17:01:01 UTC, Robert M. Münch wrote:
>> Following my "Is it time for a Unicode update of std.uni?" post in D 
>> group, I would like to try out to sponsor this effort for "Issue 16416 
>> - Phobos std.uni out of date (should be updated to latest Unicode 
>> standard)" [1]
>> 
>> For me, this, too, is an experiment to find out if it's possible to 
>> move specific issues/topics forward. And maybe even find people that 
>> are open to contact work too. For me, all these things are pretty 
>> related.
>> 
>> So, not knowing how much work it is, nor knowing what a good amount 
>> would be, I took the other route and asked me, what is it worth for me 
>> to get it done? Note: Getting #16416 done is not critical for me; most 
>> likely, I could even live with the current state of std.uni. On the 
>> other hand, std.uni is a very fundamental building block, and having it 
>> up to date and maybe even extended should be much value to D.
>> 
>> So, I'm offering $750 to get it done.
> 
> 
> I'm guess I'm not eligible for the bounty ;)

Why not?

> Anyhow if anyone wants easy money - shoot me an email, or reply in this thread.

Well, as I wrote, since I don't have a real good understanding about 
the necessary effort I started from "what is it worth for me in $ to 
get it done?". So, if it's a simple script-change and a re-run and you 
are the only one knowing this and keeping it for yourself... yes, it's 
easy money.

On the other hand, if you can help someone to get started and it's a 
couple of hours, I would expect people to be fair enough and state: 
Hey, $400 (or whatever) is OK, let's take the rest to sponsor something 
else. That's what I would do.

> Spoiler is - the whole thing is code generated and there is only one 
> table that I forgot about (i.e. I have no idea what is the source table 
> for it in Unicode standard).

With "forgot" you mean, you can't remember, or it's missing at all in 
your prior work?

> P.S. I'm kind of back, but very busy and my health is mostly great 
> despite the COVID outrage out there.

That's great to hear... and maybe std.uni support/coaching for someone 
stepping up is possible. That would be great too. If, maybe even I can 
try to do it...

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Robert M. Münch
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