Phobos needs a (part-time) maintainer

Basile B. via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Thu Jun 2 13:59:52 PDT 2016


On Thursday, 2 June 2016 at 20:23:37 UTC, Seb wrote:
> On Thursday, 2 June 2016 at 20:17:32 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
> wrote:
>> On 06/02/2016 03:41 PM, Basile B. wrote:
>>> Once a pr gets the label "@andrei". It basically means that 
>>> "it's dead".
>>
>> You mean @andralex? You are right. I am sorry, I'm coming off 
>> an unprecedently busy spring spent mostly evangelizing D at 
>> various conferences, or doing contract work that will pour 
>> money in the Foundation's coffers. This is not work I can 
>> delegate, but is poised to have great impact (more on that 
>> later). I thought leaving Facebook would free my time, but 
>> things have gotten really crazily busy. And look at me - I 
>> spend most of my time on the autodecoding thread.
>>
>> Andrei
>
> Can't we have someone that can dedicate a fixed amount of his 
> professional time to maintain the D infrastructure?
> There is so much to do - reviewing and categorizing PRs is just 
> the tip of the ice berg.
>
> Ideally it would be a full-time position, but if a company 
> would dedicate 20% of an employees time to start be able to 
> contribute to D, that would be an awesome step forward.

Eventually I'll come back to bugfix if they take Jake, but not 
you Seb.
For a reason or another I don't like you wilzbach.


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