On 2009-07-26 23:36:06 -0400, Benji Smith <dlangu...@benjismith.net> said:
Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
Benji Smith wrote:
Maybe if Andrei put together a list of
missing Phobos functionality, we could get people from the community to
flesh out the libs.
I think we'd need at a minimum:
<snip>
That would be great. In general, it would be awesome to gather more
contributions from the community. There's a thirst to contribute and
we'll be glad to involve this group into some serious design e.g. for
concurrency support, as well as accept code for functionality that
belongs to the standard library.
In the bulleted list above there are many mini-projects that are
confined enough to be done by one willing individual in a relatively
short time.
Are there contributor guidelines somewhere?
Funny. I started to write some guidelines a few months ago. Those were
guidelines about how to name things consistently: like types should be
camel-cased nouns possibly prefixed with adjectives starting with an
uppercase; variables, getters, and setters should be camel-cased nouns
starting with a lowercase; functions that perform an action should
contain with a verb, short names should be avoided if they aren't
meaningful, etc. Then I found that most of Phobos would have to change
to fit my guidelines, and I couldn't come with anything sensible that
would fit half of Phobos, so I gave up.
If someone's insterested, I can post them somewhere.
Unfortunatly, I wonder if this lack of guidelines is slowing
contributions to Phobos, with everyone who aims at good integration
wasting their time trying to figure out the rules.
--
Michel Fortin
michel.for...@michelf.com
http://michelf.com/
