[swift-dev] Helping out with larger-scope items?

[Shawn Erickson]

I would like to make myself available for standard library work. It is more
of wheel house then compiler, etc.

-Shawn

On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 3:19 PM Dave Abrahams via swift-dev <
swift-dev at swift.org> wrote:

>
> on Tue Feb 16 2016, Austin Zheng <swift-dev-AT-swift.org> wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > The bug tracker contains a number of small, relatively straightforward
> > tasks and bugs marked as 'starter bugs'. What would be a good way to
> > find, start working on, or collaborate on tasks and engineering
> > projects with larger, more complex scope? I know there are Apple
> > engineers concentrating on specific subsets of Swift 3.0
> > functionality, and it would be great if there were a way for us on the
> > outside to usefully help out.
>
> Hi Austin,
>
> Thanks again for asking.  We actually have a pretty substantial
> challenge ahead with replacing the standard library's collections and
> indices with what's in
>
> https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/master/test/Prototypes/CollectionsMoveIndices.swift
> I anticipate that the whole stdlib team may need to be involved in this
> project, which Dmitri (Cc'd) is driving, and we'd love it if you could
> help.
>
> Obviously, as it hasn't gone through review yet, it needs to happen on a
> branch.
>
> Does that sound interesting?
>
> --
> -Dave
>
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