Re: Two New Manpower Initiatives

2019-04-19 Thread Piotrek via Digitalmars-d-announce

On Monday, 15 April 2019 at 10:08:31 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
I've just published a post on the blog introducing two new 
initiatives, the Manpower Share and the Manpower Fund, that 
came out of our quarterly D Language Foundation meetings. The 
goal is to help focus energy on getting more effort directed at 
the issues that fall by the wayside. The blog post has all the 
details, so I encourage everyone who cares about improving D 
and its ecosystem to give it a read.


The blog:
https://dlang.org/blog/2019/04/15/manpower-in-the-d-ecosystem-or-resources-resources-resources/

Reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/d_language/comments/bde7zq/manpower_in_the_d_ecosystem_or_resources/


Great write-up. IMO, the direction is right and looks promising. 
Of course, besides me only talking, I'm aware that something 
material can be done. And hopefully, I won't miss a chance ;)


Cheers,
Piotrek


Re: Two New Manpower Initiatives

2019-04-17 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce

On Wednesday, 17 April 2019 at 18:51:19 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:



Looking at the Ecosystem Task List, I had expected something 
more specific than just "close as many bugs as possible" for 
various projects.


That's how I initially envisioned it. But on reflection, that's 
probably not the best way to go about it. The time available is 
extremely limited. Specific tasks need to be trivial enough to be 
completed within a single workday. That's a broad category. That 
would mean populating the list with a bunch of issues from the 
priority projects. Which issues? All of them that fit? Then why 
put them on the list at all? Just let the tasked worker sort 
through the project's issues page. They're in a better position 
than I am to judge how long it should take them to finish a lot 
of those items anyway.


But this is just to seed the list and get us started. Anyone can 
suggest specific tasks to add to it and submit an issue or a PR. 
I expect such tasks to be added as time goes by.


Re: Two New Manpower Initiatives

2019-04-17 Thread Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d-announce

On 2019-04-15 12:08, Mike Parker wrote:
I've just published a post on the blog introducing two new initiatives, 
the Manpower Share and the Manpower Fund, that came out of our quarterly 
D Language Foundation meetings. The goal is to help focus energy on 
getting more effort directed at the issues that fall by the wayside. The 
blog post has all the details, so I encourage everyone who cares about 
improving D and its ecosystem to give it a read.


Looking at the Ecosystem Task List, I had expected something more 
specific than just "close as many bugs as possible" for various projects.


--
/Jacob Carlborg


Re: Two New Manpower Initiatives

2019-04-17 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce

On Monday, 15 April 2019 at 17:41:03 UTC, Christian Köstlin wrote:

On 15.04.19 12:08, Mike Parker wrote:

...
The blog:
https://dlang.org/blog/2019/04/15/manpower-in-the-d-ecosystem-or-resources-resources-resources/
 ...


On of the options to contribute to the d language foundation is 
amazon smile. Is there a way to also have amazon smile enabled 
for e.g. amazon.de?


cK


Unfortunately, if smile is available at the .de domain, the D 
Language Foundation will not be. The .com domain is restricted to 
US-based organizations, the .co.uk domain to UK-based 
organizations, etc.


Re: Two New Manpower Initiatives

2019-04-16 Thread aberba via Digitalmars-d-announce

On Monday, 15 April 2019 at 10:08:31 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
I've just published a post on the blog introducing two new 
initiatives, the Manpower Share and the Manpower Fund, that 
came out of our quarterly D Language Foundation meetings. The 
goal is to help focus energy on getting more effort directed at 
the issues that fall by the wayside. The blog post has all the 
details, so I encourage everyone who cares about improving D 
and its ecosystem to give it a read.


The blog:
https://dlang.org/blog/2019/04/15/manpower-in-the-d-ecosystem-or-resources-resources-resources/

Reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/d_language/comments/bde7zq/manpower_in_the_d_ecosystem_or_resources/


I'm proud of the ever increasing momentum being put behind D.


Re: Two New Manpower Initiatives

2019-04-15 Thread Christian Köstlin via Digitalmars-d-announce

On 15.04.19 12:08, Mike Parker wrote:

...
The blog:
https://dlang.org/blog/2019/04/15/manpower-in-the-d-ecosystem-or-resources-resources-resources/ 
...


On of the options to contribute to the d language foundation is amazon 
smile. Is there a way to also have amazon smile enabled for e.g. amazon.de?


cK




Two New Manpower Initiatives

2019-04-15 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
I've just published a post on the blog introducing two new 
initiatives, the Manpower Share and the Manpower Fund, that came 
out of our quarterly D Language Foundation meetings. The goal is 
to help focus energy on getting more effort directed at the 
issues that fall by the wayside. The blog post has all the 
details, so I encourage everyone who cares about improving D and 
its ecosystem to give it a read.


The blog:
https://dlang.org/blog/2019/04/15/manpower-in-the-d-ecosystem-or-resources-resources-resources/

Reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/d_language/comments/bde7zq/manpower_in_the_d_ecosystem_or_resources/