On Wednesday, 4 April 2018 at 05:31:10 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
Hi folks, I was thinking of the following.
To keep the PR queue trim and in good shape, we'd need at least
one full-time engineer minding it. I've done that occasionally,
and the queue size got shorter, but I couldn't do much else
during that time.
I was thinking, we can't afford a full-time engineer, and even
if we did, we'd probably have other important matters for that
engineer as well. However, what we can afford - and indeed
already benefit from - is a quantum of time from each of many
volunteers. By organizing that time better we may be able to
get more output. Here's what I'm thinking.
Let's define a "PR duty" role that is one week long for each of
a pool of volunteers. During that week, the person on PR duty
focuses on minding github queues - merge trivial PRs, ping
authors of old PRs, email decision makers for specific items in
PRs, etc. Then the week ends and the role is handed off to the
next person in the pool.
(...)
Thanks,
Andrei
Maybe one idea would be to get university people interested in D.
A lot of work on the Scala compiler and eco system is done by
students at the technical university of Lausanne where Martin
Odersky (the creator of Scala) is teaching. They do work on it in
their master or PhD thesis or just help on the development of
tools and libraries. The EPFL is well endowed with money and pays
as long as the work being done is in some way research oriented
(and as long as Scala is a big thing in the IT world).
So the idea would be to get some university professors interested
in D. Then you have people working on D and its eco system that
are paid by the university or do the work for their thesis. I
would say that D is ideal for teaching programming being a
high-level language with both manual memory management and a GC.
It's really a win-win situation for D and teaching institutions.
So I would propose to have a look at universities/academia as a
new target to promote D. Students one day finish their studies
and then take the language with them from which they learned a
lot and know very well ... ;-).
