Re: D Language Foundation Monthly Meeting for February 2022

2022-03-07 Thread bauss via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 7 March 2022 at 09:58:32 UTC, forkit wrote: On Monday, 7 March 2022 at 08:47:00 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: On Monday, 7 March 2022 at 08:07:11 UTC, forkit wrote: "If it ain't broke, don't fix it!" Well.. There's 'fixing it' and there's 'improving it'. They are not the same thing.

Re: D Language Foundation Monthly Meeting for February 2022

2022-03-07 Thread forkit via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 7 March 2022 at 08:47:00 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: On Monday, 7 March 2022 at 08:07:11 UTC, forkit wrote: "If it ain't broke, don't fix it!" Well.. There's 'fixing it' and there's 'improving it'. They are not the same thing. In my opinion, gitlab is not an improvement. I agree

Re: D Language Foundation Monthly Meeting for February 2022

2022-03-07 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 7 March 2022 at 08:07:11 UTC, forkit wrote: "If it ain't broke, don't fix it!" Well.. There's 'fixing it' and there's 'improving it'. They are not the same thing. In my opinion, gitlab is not an improvement.

Re: D Language Foundation Monthly Meeting for February 2022

2022-03-07 Thread forkit via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 5 March 2022 at 14:03:38 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: But my point was, GitHub has worked well for us for years. There's no desire to move away that I'm aware of. If it ain't broke, don't fix it! "If it ain't broke, don't fix it!" Well.. There's 'fixing it' and there's 'improving

Re: D Language Foundation Monthly Meeting for February 2022

2022-03-05 Thread bauss via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 5 March 2022 at 14:03:38 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: On Saturday, 5 March 2022 at 12:39:39 UTC, Bastiaan Veelo wrote: On Saturday, 5 March 2022 at 01:21:06 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: But we have no reason to move the D projects away from GitHub to GitLab. GitLab has never entered the

Re: D Language Foundation Monthly Meeting for February 2022

2022-03-05 Thread Bastiaan Veelo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 5 March 2022 at 14:03:38 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: On Saturday, 5 March 2022 at 12:39:39 UTC, Bastiaan Veelo wrote: On Saturday, 5 March 2022 at 01:21:06 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: But we have no reason to move the D projects away from GitHub to GitLab. GitLab has never entered the

Re: D Language Foundation Monthly Meeting for February 2022

2022-03-05 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 5 March 2022 at 12:39:39 UTC, Bastiaan Veelo wrote: On Saturday, 5 March 2022 at 01:21:06 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: But we have no reason to move the D projects away from GitHub to GitLab. GitLab has never entered the conversation. Two reasons would be that 1) It already offers [an

Re: D Language Foundation Monthly Meeting for February 2022

2022-03-05 Thread Bastiaan Veelo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 5 March 2022 at 01:21:06 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: But we have no reason to move the D projects away from GitHub to GitLab. GitLab has never entered the conversation. Two reasons would be that 1) It already offers [an integration with

Re: D Language Foundation Monthly Meeting for February 2022

2022-03-04 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 4 March 2022 at 21:44:56 UTC, Arun wrote: On Friday, 4 March 2022 at 07:10:05 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: On Friday, 4 March 2022 at 06:00:06 UTC, Arun wrote: Just curious if we looked at GitLab as an alternative to both GitHub and Bugzilla. We're happy on GitHub and have no plans

Re: D Language Foundation Monthly Meeting for February 2022

2022-03-04 Thread Arun via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 4 March 2022 at 07:10:05 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: On Friday, 4 March 2022 at 06:00:06 UTC, Arun wrote: Just curious if we looked at GitLab as an alternative to both GitHub and Bugzilla. We're happy on GitHub and have no plans to move to GitLab. Sure. You mean, GitHub +

Re: D Language Foundation Monthly Meeting for February 2022

2022-03-04 Thread Paolo Invernizzi via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 4 March 2022 at 07:10:05 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: On Friday, 4 March 2022 at 06:00:06 UTC, Arun wrote: Just curious if we looked at GitLab as an alternative to both GitHub and Bugzilla. We're happy on GitHub and have no plans to move to GitLab. Quoting Vladimir, "On the other

Re: D Language Foundation Monthly Meeting for February 2022

2022-03-03 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 4 March 2022 at 06:00:06 UTC, Arun wrote: Just curious if we looked at GitLab as an alternative to both GitHub and Bugzilla. We're happy on GitHub and have no plans to move to GitLab.

Re: D Language Foundation Monthly Meeting for February 2022

2022-03-03 Thread Arun via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 3 March 2022 at 14:33:54 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: On Tuesday, 1 March 2022 at 08:12:43 UTC, bauss wrote: [...] I sort of agree with that. I usually don't bother reporting anything because I don't like bugzilla, it would just be much more convenient to use Github. New

Re: D Language Foundation Monthly Meeting for February 2022

2022-03-03 Thread Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 1 March 2022 at 08:12:43 UTC, bauss wrote: Can't beat the nice integration and ease of access Github provides, we need stay fresh to attract new younger souls I sort of agree with that. I usually don't bother reporting anything because I don't like bugzilla, it would just be much

Re: D Language Foundation Monthly Meeting for February 2022

2022-03-03 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 28 February 2022 at 22:00:09 UTC, Bastiaan Veelo wrote: On Sunday, 27 February 2022 at 11:53:18 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: ## Monthly Meeting Just letting you know that it is posts like these that I look forward to the most, and I very much appreciate the work that goes into them.

Re: D Language Foundation Monthly Meeting for February 2022

2022-03-01 Thread bauss via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 28 February 2022 at 08:52:37 UTC, meta wrote: On Sunday, 27 February 2022 at 11:53:18 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: ### Vladimir Vladimir opened with a progress report. Back in December, [we discussed migrating our Bugzilla issues to

Re: D Language Foundation Monthly Meeting for February 2022

2022-02-28 Thread Bastiaan Veelo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 27 February 2022 at 11:53:18 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: ## Monthly Meeting Just letting you know that it is posts like these that I look forward to the most, and I very much appreciate the work that goes into them. Thanks! — Bastiaan.

Re: D Language Foundation Monthly Meeting for February 2022

2022-02-28 Thread meta via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 27 February 2022 at 11:53:18 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: ### Vladimir Vladimir opened with a progress report. Back in December, [we discussed migrating our Bugzilla issues to Github](https://forum.dlang.org/post/wnnwxyjtizvhyswwq...@forum.dlang.org). An alternative solution is to

Re: D Language Foundation Monthly Meeting for February 2022

2022-02-27 Thread __StarCanopy via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 27 February 2022 at 11:53:18 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: implementation of string interpolation should be easy to explain to anyone. I'm a very unimpressive programmer, and I have a reasonable understanding of the referenced DIP, so I hope Walter will give his blessing. Leveraging D's

Re: D Language Foundation Monthly Meeting for February 2022

2022-02-27 Thread Paul Backus via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 27 February 2022 at 11:53:18 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: **ImportC** Walter told us how he thinks ImportC is going to be a big deal for D. He wants to get us "over the hump" with getting it working properly. He thinks his C extension to allow importing D files in C is working out far

Re: D Language Foundation Monthly Meeting for February 2022

2022-02-27 Thread Guillaume Piolat via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 27 February 2022 at 11:53:18 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: **128-bit integers** Finally, Walter said he has looked at implementing 128-bit integers (cent and ucent), but implementing them in DMD would be a nightmare. After more thought, he has decided it's probably better to implement

D Language Foundation Monthly Meeting for February 2022

2022-02-27 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
## Monthly Meeting The D Language Foundation's monthly meeting for February 2022 took place on February 4 and lasted around 1.5 hours. The following foundation members, contractors, and contributors attended: Walter Bright Iain Buclaw Ali Çehreli Max Haughton Martin Kinkelin Mathias Lang