Hello everyone,


I'm happy to announce we have four new committers to our project on github: AndrejMitrovic, ibuclaw, klickverbot, and rainers.

Lots of cool things are happening nowadays in D, what with DConf gearing up, the rise of private and corporate use, and the swelling of contributions. Yet we should see those as mere stepping stones toward much bigger destinations.

Short term, we need to improve process to the point where we can successfully "drain" contributions from the community, and scale up organizationally so we could absorb 10x and 100x more. There are 158 pull requests for all components combined (http://goo.gl/0Ar7b), most or all written by highly talented and motivated people. It is key to improve our ability to absorb these contributions and attract more of such.

That's in the short term. On a longer horizon, we are now at a point where many programmers have heard of D, and fortunately past the entire "what's the deal with tango and phobos" morass. The strategic item to work on now is to improve the quality of the language definition and the implementation of the reference front-end. The word on the street is that D is okay for the straight stuff, but fuzzy at the corners if you get into the esoteric. And we won't make it big for being as good as the "straight stuff" as anyone else (though that's a precondition), but by consistently showing that the differential features of D are delivering big time.

So quality is the keyword to live by. And I think by adding four high-octane committers to the team we're taking a step in the right direction. Please join me in congratulating them!


Thanks,

Andrei

On Thursday, 7 March 2013 at 20:55:57 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> I'm happy to announce we have four new committers to our project on github: AndrejMitrovic, ibuclaw, klickverbot, and rainers.

…and in case you are now wondering who the one with the strange nick name is, that's me.

Looking forward to helping out with giving the numerous high-quality contributions currently in the queue the amount of attention they deserve!

David

On 3/7/13, Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail@erdani.org> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
>
> I'm happy to announce we have four new committers to our project on github: AndrejMitrovic, ibuclaw, klickverbot, and rainers.

Excellent! Thanks for adding me and the other active committers to the crew.

P.S. apparently we have to click the "publicize membership" button to appear on the team lists: https://github.com/D-Programming-Language?tab=members

Anyway it's getting exciting, the D Team is growing fast.

On 3/7/2013 1:23 PM, David Nadlinger wrote:
> On Thursday, 7 March 2013 at 20:55:57 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> I'm happy to announce we have four new committers to our project on github:
>> AndrejMitrovic, ibuclaw, klickverbot, and rainers.
>
> …and in case you are now wondering who the one with the strange nick name is,
> that's me.

I would prefer it if you changed your nick so (at least I) can remember who is who :-)



> Looking forward to helping out with giving the numerous high-quality
> contributions currently in the queue the amount of attention they deserve!

+1

On 3/7/13, Andrej Mitrovic <andrej.mitrovich@gmail.com> wrote:
> Anyway it's getting exciting, the D Team is growing fast.

Also some fun (if maybe not 100% accurate) statistics here:
http://www.ohloh.net/p/dmd/factoids

See the bottom of the page for various factoids. Apparently we're in the top 2% of teams by some statistic.

On Thursday, 7 March 2013 at 22:26:23 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 3/7/2013 1:23 PM, David Nadlinger wrote:
>> …and in case you are now wondering who the one with the strange nick name is,
>> that's me.
>
> I would prefer it if you changed your nick so (at least I) can remember who is who :-)

I guess it counts as grandfathered in by now, the account exists since 2008. ;)

David

Andrei Alexandrescu, el  7 de March a las 15:55 me escribiste:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I'm happy to announce we have four new committers to our project on github: AndrejMitrovic, ibuclaw, klickverbot, and rainers.

Is nice to see the 2 main contributors of the 2 other compiler implementations with some official status!

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On 3/7/2013 3:55 PM, Leandro Lucarella wrote:
> Is nice to see the 2 main contributors of the 2 other compiler
> implementations with some official status!

It's hard to think of someone having better credentials!

On 2013-03-07 21:55, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> I'm happy to announce we have four new committers to our project on
> github: AndrejMitrovic, ibuclaw, klickverbot, and rainers.

This is great.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg

08-Mar-2013 00:55, Andrei Alexandrescu пишет:
> Hello everyone,
>
>
> I'm happy to announce we have four new committers to our project on
> github: AndrejMitrovic, ibuclaw, klickverbot, and rainers.
>

Congrats guys!

> Lots of cool things are happening nowadays in D, what with DConf gearing
> up, the rise of private and corporate use, and the swelling of
> contributions. Yet we should see those as mere stepping stones toward
> much bigger destinations.
>
> Short term, we need to improve process to the point where we can
> successfully "drain" contributions from the community, and scale up
> organizationally so we could absorb 10x and 100x more. There are 158
> pull requests for all components combined (http://goo.gl/0Ar7b), most or
> all written by highly talented and motivated people. It is key to
> improve our ability to absorb these contributions and attract more of such.
>

There is got to be more effective process to merge stuff. Current situation involves ping-pong between commiter/reviewer and contributor on every minor nit there is. That basically involves reviewing the same exact code few times over as cleanup arrives some days later. And even when contributor think he did cleanup something, he/she may as well miss what's the deal and the cycle repeats.

Instead it's definitely possible for committer to checkout the pull, do an extra cleanup commit (with automatic tool possibly, like detab/toln and I'd love to see official "indent" for D) and push it to the main repo. (Or squash the commits. This doesn't cancel out reviewing anything non-trivial by at least 2 persons.)

> That's in the short term. On a longer horizon, we are now at a point
> where many programmers have heard of D, and fortunately past the entire
> "what's the deal with tango and phobos" morass. The strategic item to
> work on now is to improve the quality of the language definition and the
> implementation of the reference front-end. The word on the street is
> that D is okay for the straight stuff, but fuzzy at the corners if you
> get into the esoteric. And we won't make it big for being as good as the
> "straight stuff" as anyone else (though that's a precondition), but by
> consistently showing that the differential features of D are delivering
> big time.
>
> So quality is the keyword to live by. And I think by adding four
> high-octane committers to the team we're taking a step in the right
> direction. Please join me in congratulating them!
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andrei


-- 
Dmitry Olshansky