On 12 January 2014 17:44, Andrei Alexandrescu <seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org> wrote: > On 1/12/14 4:50 AM, Johannes Pfau wrote: >> >> Am Sun, 12 Jan 2014 11:32:04 +0000 >> schrieb Iain Buclaw <ibuc...@gdcproject.org>: >> >>> On 12 January 2014 00:19, Andrei Alexandrescu >>> <seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org> wrote: >>>> >>>> I've placed on behalf of Facebook a few more bounties on D-related >>>> issues. There's a bit of budget (a few hundred only) earmarked for >>>> GDC- and LDC-specific stuff. I didn't hear anything from Iain >>>> Buclaw (what's happening?) and am discussing with Kai Nacke the >>>> best angle of attack regarding LDC issues. >> >> >> I guess the last missing pieces in GDC (apart from specific bugs) >> are NRVO, exception chaining and LTO. I probably won't work >> on any of these issues though, that stuff is too complicated for >> me ;-) >> >> But if we could get some new contributors because of these bounties >> that'd be even better :-) > > > One organizational/communication problem for me is that I've never been able > to grasp where GDC is, what the milestones for integrations are, what the > related issues are, and how to get from where we are to where we should. > I've communicated with Iain over forum, email, IRC, Skype, and to be very > honest I am unable to get simple answers to these simple questions (my > accent was an issue in Skype communication). One thing I do recall is that > Iain mentioned (I'm paraphrasing) that he hopes to underpromise and > overdeliver, i.e. just finish integration instead of bragging about it > before it being done. The unfortunate recoil from that is that I have no > idea where he is in the process, and whether he could use any help. >
We need to work on our communication. Which probably means: I need to work on my communication.