Contribution for Newcomers

[Michael]

Thanks Mike, I'll give it a shot!

On Friday, 28 February 2014 at 04:14:44 UTC, Mike wrote:
> On Friday, 28 February 2014 at 03:54:27 UTC, Michael wrote:
>> Hello all! I've been programming in D for my school projects 
>> for a while and would like to contribute to the community if 
>> possible. Can anyone give me any pointers as to where I might 
>> be able to start? I tried searching for 
>> so-trivial-give-to-new-people tag but didn't find any :o) I 
>> don't have much experience with standard libraries or 
>> compilers, but I guess we all have to start somewhere! Being 
>> here looks like I'll be learning from the best.
>
> Coincidentally, see the current discussion taking place on the 
> Announce list[1].  We'll see what comes of that discussion.  
> Maybe nothing.
>
> * GDC has a Project Ideas page [2]
> * LDC has a Contributor's Guide [3]
> * The bugtracker has 3400 open issues.  Take your pick [4]
>
> I'm new to D as well.  I'm making pull requests to update some 
> of the neglected documentation [5] as I learn .  And I've also 
> taken on my own project, not only to learn D, but to also 
> provide something that hasn't been done before.
>
> Certainly more helpful articles, tutorials, etc... on the wiki 
> [5] would be a great way to help others, and would benefit you 
> as well as it would exercise your own programming chops.
>
> Mike
>
> [1] 
> http://forum.dlang.org/post/mailman.8.1393539926.2862.digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com
> [2] http://wiki.dlang.org/GDC/ProjectIdeas
> [3] http://wiki.dlang.org/LDC_contributor%27s_guide
> [4] http://dlang.org/bugstats.php
> [5] https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dlang.org