On 2011-10-06 12:25, Regan Heath wrote:
It's obvious from my last post that I think a change should be allowed.
I think you'd agree, were it not for the urgent need of other library
components.
I've been lurking and contributing to this news group on and off for
years (since 2005/2006, maybe earlier). But, in all that time I have
contributed nothing to Phobos. I have contributed a set of
digest/hashing routines to Tango, because at the time Phobos wasn't
taking submissions. I have been meaning to clean my originals of these
up, get them properly documented, etc and submit them for review for
Phobos, but I just haven't had the time, and/or inclination to do so (my
free time is precious and I've just not been feeling the urge/itch to
code.. blame minecraft :p)
However, I am more than happy to hand them off in their current state to
anyone who does have both time and inclination .. and I wonder how many
other blocks of code are out there, just like mine, just waiting for the
right person to take charge of them. Would this be useful do you think?
Or would the time it takes someone to pick up new code, learn it, fine
tune it and document it.. etc be more than if they just started again
from scratch. It seems to me that sometimes, all that is needed to get a
new module off the ground is a working prototype for the guts of it,
which is what people like me who have some experience/knowledge but
little time/energy could do, before handing it to someone who has a
better idea of the D/Phobos 'way' and can organise the guts into a well
formed module which complies with D style and Phobos guidelines etc.
Part of what puts people off (I suspect) is the 'relative' complexity of
submitting code (obtaining/learning GIT etc), the standard the code
needs to be at (well organised, documented etc), and the implied
promise/commitment that submitting code brings with it (that you'll hang
around and maintain it). But, what if we were to create a system where
people could submit code, no strings attached, in any state (they would
define the state they believe it to be in) for the more dedicated
contributors to pick up, clean up, and include as and when they could?
It could be as simple as a web page, where code is pasted, files
attached, and a license waiver agreed to.
I know I have several pieces of code floating about the place which do
useful things and would be motivated to create more if it would help the
effort, and I could get a mention in the comments at the top of the
finished module :p
I think it sounds like a good idea, assuming there actually is people
willing to do these clean ups.
--
/Jacob Carlborg
