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this post was submitted on 20 Aug 2024
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@nutomic@lemmy.ml Just wanted to check in to see if there is any progress on this. Anything we can do to help expedite the development of this feature?
Realistically, try to contribute directly is the likely answer.
Something in between organising and contributing might be starting a community for getting people to help and organise as best as they can on community contributions.
My own community !learningrustandlemmy@lemmy.ml is such an attempt. At the moment it’s been mostly a learning rust community, but getting some group contributions organised was always on the roadmap and now would be a good time to start doing that there if you’re interested.
If you are interested at all in this or the general idea, let me know how I can help.
@threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works This. If youre interested to work on this feature or others, feel free to ask for guidance in the relevant issue, or in the dev chat.
In terms of contributing directly, while I can hack together some terrible python code, I have never done any development in Rust, or on the scale of Lemmy.
I'll keep the Matrix chat and !learningrustandlemmy@lemmy.ml in mind though. Thanks, @maegul@lemmy.ml and @nutomic@nutomic@lemmy.ml for your thoughts and suggestions!
No worries!
If you’re interested in learning rust (I’ve certainly enjoyed) feel free to try to do so in the community. We’ve just about gone through the main course now, but I can very much see another round starting if people are interested.
The whole idea is to treat contributing as a group learning challenge rather than something onerous and hard.
Otherwise, if you’ve got sql/DB experience, that’s often just as relevant AFAICT (as is the case across the fediverse). I’d bet that if anyone sorts out a good query or schema someone else could integrate it into the code base.
If you can't develop it yourself, i suggest putting a bounty on algora or polar , and trying to crowdsource the money (e.g. by putting a link to the bounty on your profile with an explanation).
A bounty is an interesting idea. Has it been used for Lemmy development or similar before? I'm not aware of any examples, but I don't closely follow development.
iirc yes, there was actually a link on every issue opened (see example), it was on bountysource which eventually died and iirc it was at a time where lemmy was not nearly as popular.