Under 1000 opened bugs for Phobos

[Jeffery via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 3 November 2015 at 14:35:08 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> https://goo.gl/r24Izw
>
> Some of them are D1 only; I'll make an executive decision about 
> those soon. Some of them have been fixed or obviated by recent 
> improvements. And finally the bulk of them need a little work 
> each to get them fixed.
>
> I'm thinking this has crowdsourcing written all over it. It 
> would be great if many of us made one pass through the list and 
> take a look at bugs with an eye for cleaning up the list.
>
>
> Andrei


It would be nice if there was a very good tutorial that shows 
exactly how to contribute to D.

I don't have the time to spend days figuring out how to get it 
all to work, etc but I could spend a few mins a day contributing 
to bugs and such.

Would it be beneficial for someone to create an official video 
and documentation to help get people to contribute easily and 
correctly?

e.g., I'm thinking of something like this:

1. Watch video, without too much nonsense, that explains the 
process
2. Download the distribution.
3. Apply what was in video(e.g., a simple example of fixing a bug)
4. Contribute FTW.

Anything getting in the way is a downer. I don't want to spend 4 
hours trying to figure out why the source won't compile. I've got 
better things to do with my time. If I'm reasonably confident 
that I can follow a simple and exact procedure that almost surely 
would work, then I'm more likely to go down that path.


I think it would benefit D to have such things. But only those 
"in the know" can accomplish the task.

(also, these captchas suck!!, every time I post, it says I have 
to wait 15 sec to repost: "Your last post was less than 15 
seconds ago. Please wait a few seconds before trying again."... 
and that's after I answer the captcha correctly, which I then 
have to answer again!)