Re: Bountysource activity

2014-04-16 Thread Robert Schadek
On 03/13/2014 07:40 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: Looks like most of these are on compiler bugs. The only Phobos one is the std.getopt one, however its situation is two abandoned patches and no clear goal as to what constitutes a change worthy of marking the issue as fixed and paying out the

Re: Bountysource activity

2014-04-07 Thread Bruno Medeiros
On 13/03/2014 18:20, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: https://www.bountysource.com/issues/1325905-shared-phobos-library-doesn-t-work-on-all-linux-distributions Over $2000 in open bounties left: https://www.bountysource.com/trackers/383571-d-programming-language

Re: Bountysource activity

2014-03-15 Thread Dicebot
On Friday, 14 March 2014 at 23:54:48 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 3/14/14, 11:43 AM, Dicebot wrote: When can we expect first upstream pull requests done from Facebook camp? :P Soon enough. Andrei This is one of best D-related things I have heard lately. Looking forward to it!

Re: Bountysource activity

2014-03-15 Thread Andrej Mitrovic
On 3/15/14, Dicebot pub...@dicebot.lv wrote: This is one of best D-related things I have heard lately. Looking forward to it! They'll get to experience that fast pull/review/merge cycle we're so used to. :P

Re: Bountysource activity

2014-03-14 Thread Andrea Fontana
On Thursday, 13 March 2014 at 18:40:01 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: On Thursday, 13 March 2014 at 18:20:16 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: https://www.bountysource.com/issues/1325905-shared-phobos-library-doesn-t-work-on-all-linux-distributions Over $2000 in open bounties left:

Re: Bountysource activity

2014-03-14 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 3/14/14, 1:44 AM, Andrea Fontana wrote: Fixing phobos bugs probably is quite easier for a D user. You just need to know phobos and D to fix a bug and you don't need compiler-related topics. I think that in this case a small reward could fight the lazyness of users. Good point. Then let's

Re: Bountysource activity

2014-03-14 Thread Andrea Fontana
On Friday, 14 March 2014 at 09:47:19 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 3/14/14, 1:44 AM, Andrea Fontana wrote: Fixing phobos bugs probably is quite easier for a D user. You just need to know phobos and D to fix a bug and you don't need compiler-related topics. I think that in this case a

Re: Bountysource activity

2014-03-14 Thread John Colvin
On Friday, 14 March 2014 at 01:19:11 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 3/13/14, 6:14 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: On 3/13/2014 9:05 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: What would make the amounts interesting? Just taking a stab in the dark here but...greater numbers are probably more

Re: Bountysource activity

2014-03-14 Thread Dicebot
On Friday, 14 March 2014 at 12:26:11 UTC, John Colvin wrote: On Friday, 14 March 2014 at 01:19:11 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 3/13/14, 6:14 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: On 3/13/2014 9:05 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: What would make the amounts interesting? Just taking a stab in the

Re: Bountysource activity

2014-03-14 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On 3/14/2014 9:22 AM, Dicebot wrote: On Friday, 14 March 2014 at 12:26:11 UTC, John Colvin wrote: How about a salaried position at Facebook as a D language developer ;) This. If Facebook is truly interested into D success, hiring some programmers to work on DMD/Phobos full-time is best thing

Re: Bountysource activity

2014-03-14 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 3/14/14, 6:22 AM, Dicebot wrote: This. If Facebook is truly interested into D success, hiring some programmers to work on DMD/Phobos full-time is best thing that can possibly be done. But as far as I understand management is not yet ready for such investment. Facebook is unique (for its

Re: Bountysource activity

2014-03-14 Thread Daniel Murphy
Andrei Alexandrescu wrote in message news:53231aa4.1020...@erdani.org... That said, since recently there are too many D internal projects for me to oversee so if anything I'm lacking headcount. Awesome!

Re: Bountysource activity

2014-03-14 Thread Iain Buclaw
On 14 March 2014 15:05, Andrei Alexandrescu seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org wrote: On 3/14/14, 6:22 AM, Dicebot wrote: This. If Facebook is truly interested into D success, hiring some programmers to work on DMD/Phobos full-time is best thing that can possibly be done. But as far as I

Re: Bountysource activity

2014-03-14 Thread Dicebot
On Friday, 14 March 2014 at 15:05:09 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 3/14/14, 6:22 AM, Dicebot wrote: This. If Facebook is truly interested into D success, hiring some programmers to work on DMD/Phobos full-time is best thing that can possibly be done. But as far as I understand management

Re: Bountysource activity

2014-03-14 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 3/14/14, 11:43 AM, Dicebot wrote: When can we expect first upstream pull requests done from Facebook camp? :P Soon enough. Andrei

Re: Bountysource activity

2014-03-14 Thread Mike
On Friday, 14 March 2014 at 10:56:21 UTC, Andrea Fontana wrote: On Friday, 14 March 2014 at 09:47:19 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 3/14/14, 1:44 AM, Andrea Fontana wrote: Fixing phobos bugs probably is quite easier for a D user. You just need to know phobos and D to fix a bug and you

Bountysource activity

2014-03-13 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
https://www.bountysource.com/issues/1325905-shared-phobos-library-doesn-t-work-on-all-linux-distributions Over $2000 in open bounties left: https://www.bountysource.com/trackers/383571-d-programming-language https://www.bountysource.com/trackers/455080-gdc

Re: Bountysource activity

2014-03-13 Thread Adam D. Ruppe
Nick recently did a patch for this one: https://www.bountysource.com/issues/1327154-dmd-never-inlines-functions-that-could-throw+ we've had a lot of movement on this one https://www.bountysource.com/issues/1326911-dtoh-utility-convert-d-files-to-c-header-files and it pretty well works now

Re: Bountysource activity

2014-03-13 Thread Vladimir Panteleev
On Thursday, 13 March 2014 at 18:20:16 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: https://www.bountysource.com/issues/1325905-shared-phobos-library-doesn-t-work-on-all-linux-distributions Over $2000 in open bounties left: https://www.bountysource.com/trackers/383571-d-programming-language Looks like

Re: Bountysource activity

2014-03-13 Thread Brad Anderson
On Thursday, 13 March 2014 at 18:38:45 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: Nick recently did a patch for this one: https://www.bountysource.com/issues/1327154-dmd-never-inlines-functions-that-could-throw+ we've had a lot of movement on this one

Re: Bountysource activity

2014-03-13 Thread Andrej Mitrovic
On 3/13/14, Vladimir Panteleev vladi...@thecybershadow.net wrote: However, the biggest problem is the open pull request count. What good is authoring a patch if no one wants to take time to review it? IMHO, we don't need more bug bounties - we need REVIEWER bounties. Some way to convince

Re: Bountysource activity

2014-03-13 Thread Joakim
On Thursday, 13 March 2014 at 18:38:45 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: Generally though, I don't think the bounties are going to change much behavior; the only issues that will be addressed are the ones that we were going to do anyway, since the dollar amount is just too small to change a business

Re: Bountysource activity

2014-03-13 Thread Leandro Lucarella
Adam D. Ruppe, el 13 de March a las 18:38 me escribiste: Nick recently did a patch for this one: https://www.bountysource.com/issues/1327154-dmd-never-inlines-functions-that-could-throw+ we've had a lot of movement on this one

Re: Bountysource activity

2014-03-13 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On 3/13/2014 2:38 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: financially, I'd be better off flipping burgers. No real change to the incentive. I flipped burgers for a month when I was 16. Money being the same, I'd rather patch a compiler ;) But yea, if you do the math it does tend to work out less than

Re: Bountysource activity

2014-03-13 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 3/13/14, 11:38 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: Nick recently did a patch for this one: https://www.bountysource.com/issues/1327154-dmd-never-inlines-functions-that-could-throw+ we've had a lot of movement on this one

Re: Bountysource activity

2014-03-13 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On 3/13/2014 9:05 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: What would make the amounts interesting? Just taking a stab in the dark here but...greater numbers are probably more interesting numbers? :) (Sorry I can't be more helpful/specific than that.)

Re: Bountysource activity

2014-03-13 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On 3/13/2014 4:48 PM, Andrej Mitrovic wrote: So these complicated DMD changesets can only really be reviewed by people with intricate knowledge of the compiler. I don't think there's that many people around with that kind of knowledge. I think that's a good, and important, point. And I think

Re: Bountysource activity

2014-03-13 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 3/13/14, 6:14 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: On 3/13/2014 9:05 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: What would make the amounts interesting? Just taking a stab in the dark here but...greater numbers are probably more interesting numbers? :) (Sorry I can't be more helpful/specific than that.)

Re: Bountysource activity

2014-03-13 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 3/13/14, 2:45 PM, Leandro Lucarella wrote: Is still better than nothing, and at least a nice gesture to the community, but definitely not bounty-driven development :D Probably we don't want that anyway. Where I'd hope to get is a point where bounties increase participation and dynamism,

Re: Bountysource activity

2014-03-13 Thread Adam D. Ruppe
On Friday, 14 March 2014 at 01:05:08 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: Still, that's more than the $0/hr for most of the D contributions we're happy to do, so I'm not complaining. Aye, but it doesn't push you over the line from I'd like to do this but am too busy with other work or meh i don't care

Re: Bountysource activity

2014-03-13 Thread Adam D. Ruppe
On Friday, 14 March 2014 at 01:19:11 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Yah, I meant HOW MUCH would make the amounts interesting? That's hard to say, but something around 5x larger would be enough for me at least to start doing D bugs instead of taking more PHP contracts - that'd put the bounty

Re: Bountysource activity

2014-03-13 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On 3/13/2014 9:23 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Friday, 14 March 2014 at 01:05:08 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: Still, that's more than the $0/hr for most of the D contributions we're happy to do, so I'm not complaining. Aye, but it doesn't push you over the line from I'd like to do this but am

Re: Bountysource activity

2014-03-13 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On 3/13/2014 9:19 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 3/13/14, 6:14 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: On 3/13/2014 9:05 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: What would make the amounts interesting? Just taking a stab in the dark here but...greater numbers are probably more interesting numbers? :) (Sorry

Re: Bountysource activity

2014-03-13 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On 3/13/2014 2:40 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: The only Phobos one is the std.getopt one, however its situation is two abandoned patches and no clear goal as to what constitutes a change worthy of marking the issue as fixed and paying out the bounty. Yea, this is actually a general issue I

Re: Bountysource activity

2014-03-13 Thread Mathias LANG
On Friday, 14 March 2014 at 01:16:57 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Probably we don't want that anyway. Where I'd hope to get is a point where bounties increase participation and dynamism, and steer work toward certain issues. Andrei From my point of view, bounties won't be super efficient