On 04/27/2017 04:53 PM, Mike Parker wrote:
This year, DConf has an extra day tacked on for problem solving in the
form of a hackathon. The intent is to work on issues people find
frustrating in the D ecosystem. While there will be time given at the
event for proposals, and those involving third-party projects are
welcome, it will help speed things along for the organizers to come in
with a list of big issues to get the ball rolling.
To help in compiling the list, what are some major issues from the
ecosystem that you'd like to see fixed?
I'm most frustrated by regressions and wrong-code bugs in
dmd/druntime/phobos (with a focus on dmd). Regressions are annoying,
because that stuff used to work, dammit! And wrong-code bugs are
annoying, because they can be hard to track down and work around.
I don't really have a list of them sorted by importance or impact, but I
guess the one's I have reported are, on average, more dear to me than
others [1][2].
I haven't reported this one, but it has a special place in my heart,
because the miscompiled code is so simple:
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15538
Generally, just sorting the issue list by severity and going from the
top would probably have a good impact:
https://issues.dlang.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=__open__&columnlist=component%2Cassigned_to%2Cbug_status%2Cbug_severity%2Cshort_desc&content=&no_redirect=1&order=bug_severity%2Cbug_status%2Cpriority%2Cassigned_to%2Cbug_id&product=&query_based_on=&query_format=specific
Instead of trying to fix those bugs during DConf, maybe experienced devs
could help interested folks get into it. Look at an issue together, lay
out what needs to be done about it. I'm thinking about dmd in
particular, because it seems to be understaffed. Only works if there are
people who want to get into fixing compiler bugs, of course.
[1] My regressions:
https://issues.dlang.org/buglist.cgi?bug_severity=regression&email1=ag0aep6g&emailreporter1=1&emailtype1=substring&list_id=214636&query_format=advanced&resolution=---
[2] My wrong-code bugs:
https://issues.dlang.org/buglist.cgi?email1=ag0aep6g&emailreporter1=1&emailtype1=substring&keywords=wrong-code&keywords_type=allwords&list_id=214637&query_format=advanced&resolution=---
