State of the Compiler

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On Thursday, 3 March 2016 at 00:21:48 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote:
> On Wednesday, 2 March 2016 at 22:12:11 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
> wrote:
>> Maybe the wiki should have pages for dmd and Phobos (and 
>> possible druntime) with stuff like this which indicates what 
>> you'd prefer that folks do.
>
> I'd think that bugzilla is a much better mechanism for this, as 
> you can mark internal dmd enhancement requests as such and 
> people already browse bugzilla for things to work on, where as 
> the wiki tends to not get maintained.

*warning*: off-topic!

Tagging them with an according priority or maybe "help wanted" on 
their issue tracker is what most project that I know do.

As a newcomer to DLang I would like to point out that such a 
roadmap about the project's future is nice to have. I know you 
have those nice visions [1, 2], but there are quite hard to find 
and aimed at newcomers.
(update: I edited the main wiki page to link to [2] instead of 
[1]).

I __really like___ Mozilla's Contributing guide, especially 
because they have three categories (Good first bugs [7], mentored 
bugs [8], student projects [9]).

Other ideas
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* dedicated section at [4] (e.g. Good areas to start with or Help 
needed)
* the idea of bountysource is pretty awesome [4] - I can see that 
it hasn't been that active over time. What is your experience 
with that? Maybe tagging such issues with 10-20$ could help to 
attract people if announced properly.

Apart from that I think that your DIP [5] list is pretty sweat, 
so putting them in the wiki could work too ;-)

[1] https://wiki.dlang.org/Vision/2015H2
[2] https://wiki.dlang.org/Vision/2016H1
[3] https://wiki.dlang.org/Get_involved
[4] https://www.bountysource.com/teams/d/issues
[5] http://wiki.dlang.org/List_of_DIP
[6] 
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Developer_guide/Introduction
[7] https://bugzil.la/sw:%22[good%20first%20bug]%22&limit=0
[8] http://www.joshmatthews.net/bugsahoy/
[9] https://bugzil.la/kw:student-project