"bearophile" <bearophileh...@lycos.com> wrote in message news:iti6fa$318d$1...@digitalmars.com... > > You are doing lot of work in Bugzilla, thank you. Lately I have seen > patches written by you for several small but annoying bugs, I hope to see > most of those things fixed in dmd 2.054. > If you look for things to fix, Don keeps a list of big important bugs, and > I have a different list of little "bugs" (I think you have fixed two or > more of them already). > I already have my own list. (~200 bugs) This particular bug was not fixed by me though.
> I think it's good to make the DMD hacking more accessible, creating a > single HTML page that explains how to get the latest dmd sources, how > submit patches, what are the main subsystems of DMD and how they interact. > A second good HTML page to keep is a list, updated weekly, of bugs to fix, > sorted in few groups, "very easy", "easy", "hard to fix", to offer > something to do to newbies in DMD hacking. > To be honest, I have mixed feelings about this. Setting up a dev environment for dmd shouldn't be too difficult for somebody who is planning to patch the compiler. There is already a guide up somewhere for submitting a pull request to phobos.
