On Monday, 4 May 2020 at 17:01:01 UTC, Robert M. Münch wrote:
Following my "Is it time for a Unicode update of std.uni?" post
in D group, I would like to try out to sponsor this effort for
"Issue 16416 - Phobos std.uni out of date (should be updated to
latest Unicode standard)" [1]
For me, this, too, is an experiment to find out if it's
possible to move specific issues/topics forward. And maybe even
find people that are open to contact work too. For me, all
these things are pretty related.
So, not knowing how much work it is, nor knowing what a good
amount would be, I took the other route and asked me, what is
it worth for me to get it done? Note: Getting #16416 done is
not critical for me; most likely, I could even live with the
current state of std.uni. On the other hand, std.uni is a very
fundamental building block, and having it up to date and maybe
even extended should be much value to D.
So, I'm offering $750 to get it done.
I'm guess I'm not eligible for the bounty ;)
Besides getting the work done, there is one constraint: The
work needs to get into Phobos. It doesn't make sense to have it
sit around, because it's not being merged. I don't have any
clue who is in charge, who decides this. Or if there need to be
some conditions full-filled so that the result gets merged.
Anyhow if anyone wants easy money - shoot me an email, or reply
in this thread.
Spoiler is - the whole thing is code generated and there is only
one table that I forgot about (i.e. I have no idea what is the
source table for it in Unicode standard).
[1] https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16416
P.S. I'm kind of back, but very busy and my health is mostly
great despite the COVID outrage out there.
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Dmitry Olshansky
