It would be nice to see all the hard workers who have helped D become what has become and are helping it become what it will be get noticed for there hard work(effectively they have given money to the D foundation through their time).

Is this being done? I think the regulars that have been around should get noticed and supported for their support. The D foundation should try to repay them at some point if possible(in the near or distant future)... but having official recognition is the start.

As far as I can tell, the core D team(which is basically Walter and Andrei?), while appreciating the time and money others have put in, kinda take it for granted, so to speak.

It isn't about stroking peoples ego's, but about compensating them for their somewhat selfless dedication. After all, it was a choice they made, and they sacrificed their time, money, family time, livelihood, etc to support one persons project or vision without any desires to be compensated. While the money may not be there, it's not much work to make something official. I am not proposing awards or any gimmicks like that but something more from the heart.

The D foundation already compensates on a case by case basis.
It isn't much (not enough money to hire 10-20 devs full time), but it happens behind closed doors. Where it should be.

On Saturday, 17 June 2017 at 08:33:18 UTC, Mike B Johnson wrote:
> It would be nice to see all the hard workers who have helped D become what has become and are helping it become what it will be get noticed for there hard work(effectively they have given money to the D foundation through their time).

I think this is a great idea! I like the way Rust approaches this by listing the names of all contributors who helped for each release:

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2017/02/02/Rust-1.15.html

https://thanks.rust-lang.org

> Is this being done? I think the regulars that have been around should get noticed and supported for their support. The D foundation should try to repay them at some point if possible(in the near or distant future)... but having official recognition is the start.

I run a tiny Vibe.d service that shows a list of all contributors for each Phobos module based on the git history.
It's integrated with dlang.org and visible at the bottom of each module e.g.

https://dlang.org/phobos/std_algorithm.html

Source:
https://github.com/wilzbach/phobos-contribs