Contributing

2010-08-16 Thread Pedro Rodrigues
Hello! While working on some pet project using D 2.0, I stumbled on a Phobos module poorly documented (std.date). I had to check the source code to understand what was going on. This made me think, I could help the next guy that stumbles on the same problem, by writing the missing documentatio

Re: Contributing

2010-08-16 Thread Adam Ruppe
I started doing this too, and am planning to commit it for the next release. I haven't finished it though. If you email your modified copy of date.d to me (destructionator (at) gmail.com), I'll integrate your changes with mine and commit it to Phobos for you.

Re: Contributing

2010-08-16 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
Adam Ruppe wrote: I started doing this too, and am planning to commit it for the next release. I haven't finished it though. If you email your modified copy of date.d to me (destructionator (at) gmail.com), I'll integrate your changes with mine and commit it to Phobos for you. There seems t

Re: Contributing

2010-08-16 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
Pedro Rodrigues wrote: Hello! While working on some pet project using D 2.0, I stumbled on a Phobos module poorly documented (std.date). I had to check the source code to understand what was going on. This made me think, I could help the next guy that stumbles on the same problem, by writing

Re: Contributing

2010-08-16 Thread Yao G.
On Mon, 16 Aug 2010 20:18:28 -0500, Adam Ruppe wrote: I started doing this too, and am planning to commit it for the next release. I haven't finished it though. Are you working on Gregorian documentation? Or the code itself? I was trying to do an improvement following the original Boost d

Re: Contributing

2010-08-16 Thread Adam Ruppe
On 8/16/10, Yao G. wrote: > Are you working on Gregorian documentation? Or the code itself? I've just been (slowly) documenting std.date. I used it for a work project, and hit a similar situation to Pedro: the module was good enough for me, but I had to dive into the source before I knew it even

Contributing to DMD

2018-05-23 Thread Mike Franklin via Digitalmars-d
r test suite shows a red X * Is controversial or benefit is not obvious * Reviewer has to spend a lot of time studying the code to figure out why and what * Has a lot of refactoring changes that aren't needed for the actual fix I was thinking about making a set of videos about how

[wiki] Contributing to D

2012-12-10 Thread H. S. Teoh
I fleshed out the wiki page on contributing to D, based on what I know: http://wiki.dlang.org/Get_involved But I think it needs at least another pair of eyes from other D contributors to add missing details or fix blatant errors on my part. It would be nice especially if

Re: [wiki] Contributing to D

2012-12-10 Thread H. S. Teoh
On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 04:29:14PM -0800, H. S. Teoh wrote: > I fleshed out the wiki page on contributing to D, based on what I know: > > http://wiki.dlang.org/Get_involved > > But I think it needs at least another pair of eyes from other D > contributors to add miss

Re: [wiki] Contributing to D

2012-12-10 Thread Alex Rønne Petersen
On 11-12-2012 01:30, H. S. Teoh wrote: On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 04:29:14PM -0800, H. S. Teoh wrote: I fleshed out the wiki page on contributing to D, based on what I know: http://wiki.dlang.org/Get_involved But I think it needs at least another pair of eyes from other D contributors to

Re: [wiki] Contributing to D

2012-12-10 Thread H. S. Teoh
On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 01:35:12AM +0100, Alex Rønne Petersen wrote: > On 11-12-2012 01:30, H. S. Teoh wrote: > >On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 04:29:14PM -0800, H. S. Teoh wrote: > >>I fleshed out the wiki page on contributing to D, based on what I know: > >> > >>

Re: [wiki] Contributing to D

2012-12-11 Thread Andrej Mitrovic
On 12/11/12, H. S. Teoh wrote: > P.S. And also, http://wiki.dlang.org/Pull_Requests I never needed to use "pull --ff-only", all I do to rebase is "git pull --rebase upstream master", it never messed with my history as far as I'm aware.

Re: [wiki] Contributing to D

2012-12-11 Thread monarch_dodra
On Tuesday, 11 December 2012 at 00:32:23 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: P.S. And also, http://wiki.dlang.org/Pull_Requests and http://wiki.dlang.org/Building_DMD, which needs some Windows-specific instructions. T I got some windows instructions done quick and dirty. The page still needs some work,

Re: [wiki] Contributing to D

2012-12-22 Thread Jonathan M Davis
On Monday, December 10, 2012 16:29:14 H. S. Teoh wrote: > I fleshed out the wiki page on contributing to D, based on what I know: > > http://wiki.dlang.org/Get_involved > > But I think it needs at least another pair of eyes from other D > contributors to add missing deta

[RFC] New contributing to Phobos guide

2016-03-30 Thread Seb via Digitalmars-d
As mentioned in an earlier discussion on this NG, I put together my experiences as a new contributor and with a lot of helpful feedback from @ZombineDev, @quickfur and @rcorre a new contributing to Phobos guide with a lot of recommendations and advice was created: https://wiki.dlang.org

Re: Caching in computing ranges (and contributing to Phobos)

2010-10-09 Thread Tomek Sowiński
Peter Alexander napisał: > On 9/10/10 8:58 PM, Pelle wrote: >> How about never having caches and if you need them, you can get a >> cached(map(..etc..))? >> >> I do not understand where the notion that ranges should have caches come >> from. It destroys the possibility for using const and complica

Re: Caching in computing ranges (and contributing to Phobos)

2010-10-09 Thread Peter Alexander
On 9/10/10 10:06 PM, Tomek Sowiński wrote: How can I contribute that to Phobos? I believe you have been accepted as a trusted commiter by some people (Walter and Andrei?). Most people appear to earn trust by writing a high quality library.

Re: Caching in computing ranges (and contributing to Phobos)

2010-10-09 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 10/9/10 16:06 CDT, Tomek Sowiński wrote: Peter Alexander napisał: On 9/10/10 8:58 PM, Pelle wrote: How about never having caches and if you need them, you can get a cached(map(..etc..))? I do not understand where the notion that ranges should have caches come from. It destroys the possibil

Re: Caching in computing ranges (and contributing to Phobos)

2010-10-09 Thread bearophile
Peter Alexander: > I believe you have been accepted as a trusted commiter by some people > (Walter and Andrei?). Most people appear to earn trust by writing a high > quality library. Right. While DMD is currently NOT managed as a true Open Source project (and this is very bad for the future an

Studying the DMD front-end and contributing to similar projects?

2010-05-02 Thread Aziz K.
Hi, The specs are not always helpful when you need to know how to write a compiler for D programs. Is it okay to study the code of the front-end of DMD, and also contribute to similar projects under a different license? What are the restrictions in this regard? -- Aziz -- Dil: http://co

Re: Studying the DMD front-end and contributing to similar projects?

2010-05-02 Thread Walter Bright
Aziz K. wrote: Hi, The specs are not always helpful when you need to know how to write a compiler for D programs. Is it okay to study the code of the front-end of DMD, and also contribute to similar projects under a different license? What are the restrictions in this regard? It is under

Re: Studying the DMD front-end and contributing to similar projects?

2010-05-02 Thread Aziz K.
Walter Bright wrote: I use the compiler source in my Compiler Construction Seminar (http://www.astoriseminar.com). So yes, you are free to study the code, learn from it, apply the techniques in your own projects, and contribute to other projects under a different license. Great. Thanks for