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

[Dave Abrahams]

on Fri Feb 19 2016, Shawn Erickson <shawnce-AT-gmail.com> wrote:

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

Terrific!  Why don't you familiarize yourself with
https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/master/test/Prototypes/CollectionsMoveIndices.swift
and I'll get you and Austin set up with some branches to fork and submit
PRs to?

> -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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-Dave