I just watched this talk "Life is better with Rust's community automation" by E. Dunham

Video: https://youtu.be/dIageYT0Vgg
Blog post: http://edunham.net/2016/09/27/rust_s_community_automation.html (Not the same talk, but very close and by the correct speaker/blogger)

Some of the 2017 H1 vision [0] concerns "Improve process (release, DIPs, deprecations/enhancements)" and "Improve operational efficiency". So community automation fits the agenda.

I guess most people are roughly aware of the Rust tooling (bors, highfive, etc). Somethings are replicated with D, but we don't anthropomorphize [1] our tools.

One thing, I did not know yet was the Servo Starters website [2]. Servo is not Rust itself, but its biggest "demo" project. The starters website is for newbies, who would like to contribute a little. It maintains a list of open issues for newbies and filters them a little.

With D, we just point people to the wiki [3]. Maybe this approach would be a little more inviting?

[0] https://wiki.dlang.org/Vision/2017H1
[1] https://auto-tester.puremagic.com/
[2] https://starters.servo.org/
[3] https://wiki.dlang.org/Get_involved