How to contribute to GC?

[Kira Backes]

Dear D users,


I think the GC is the one are that is holding D the most back, so 
I’d like to help it. But I have no idea how. No, I’m not talking 
about the technical stuff, rather about the organizational stuff 
and the contribution workflow.

It seems like sociomantics wanted to port CDGC to D2 but I did 
not see any work following that, they also wanted to refactor the 
existing GC but I also don’t think much has been done there. Then 
there is also a precise GC. It exists, but is anything planned 
for this to be included?

So, I’d really like to help with the GC but I have no idea how.
- There is no overview of what people are doing on the GC or 
their GC forks
- I have basically no idea what of the current work will be 
included into Phobos, so I don’t what to base my contribution on
- I don’t know which ideas I could work on so that they 
eventually will be included
- Finally, I don’t know what the core D team is already planning 
or what their vision is, what they’re planning themselves, what 
they want to see in D, what they will accept as contribution


Maybe we need a project page or a group or something for the GC? 
Where we can collect all ideas, see who’s working on what, see 
what’s wanted and so on.



rgds, Kira Backes