Hey folks,

I'm been starting to work on Debian bugs and found that most of the issues are eventually ranked from easy to hard to fix. I wondering if we can do the same (if not already). I think it would encourage new folks to pick up tasks (like myself).

On Sunday, 29 March 2015 at 20:20:52 UTC, Jonathan wrote:
> Hey folks,
>
> I'm been starting to work on Debian bugs and found that most of the issues are eventually ranked from easy to hard to fix. I wondering if we can do the same (if not already). I think it would encourage new folks to pick up tasks (like myself).

That's a nice idea, but for now I'd say look for bugs with few comments. Lots of comments normally implies there is a difficult problem and a solution hasn't been found, despite experienced people trying.

On 03/29/2015 10:20 PM, Jonathan wrote:
> Hey folks,
> 
> I'm been starting to work on Debian bugs and found that most of the issues are eventually ranked from easy to hard to fix. I wondering if we can do the same (if not already). I think it would encourage new folks to pick up tasks (like myself).

Sounds like a nice idea, but I doubt that it will work out.
There are already plenty of tools to prioritize bugs, but people often
don't even set importance or severity.

We could try something different, let the core contributors weekly curate bugs.

I'll start with a bunch of core.atomic improvements.

https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12891 - add atomicInc and
atomicDec to core.atomic
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14117 - core.atomic should be @safe

That one is a bit harder, because it involves dmd and druntime, but it's a huge improvement, implementation help guaranteed.

https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13713 - core.atomic should use compiler intrinsics

-Martin

Actually, this is a good alternative: post here if anyone knows about simple bugs that I can tackle.

Although Martin, I wouldn't considering writing patches involving atomic ops to be easy/simple bugs. However, I think I know enough x86 asm to write an optimized version of atomicInc and atomicDec. I'll take a crack at it this week!

> I'll start with a bunch of core.atomic improvements.
>
> https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12891 - add atomicInc and
> atomicDec to core.atomic
> https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14117 - core.atomic should be @safe
>
> That one is a bit harder, because it involves dmd and druntime, but it's
> a huge improvement, implementation help guaranteed.
>
> https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13713 - core.atomic should use
> compiler intrinsics
>
> -Martin

On 03/30/2015 05:19 PM, Jonathan wrote:
> Actually, this is a good alternative: post here if anyone knows about simple bugs that I can tackle.
> 
> Although Martin, I wouldn't considering writing patches involving atomic ops to be easy/simple bugs. However, I think I know enough x86 asm to write an optimized version of atomicInc and atomicDec. I'll take a crack at it this week!

OK, it requires a little X86 knowledge, but if you make a pull, we can help you with the details.