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Add `Sendable` conformances to thread-safe types
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Description
All or almost all of Dispatch’s types are thread-safe, so they should be marked as Sendable.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
No source files or tests are named in the issue. Start by locating Dispatch's public type declarations and reviewing which types are thread-safe; then determine how Sendable conformances are represented in this project. Done means all applicable thread-safe Dispatch types have conformances and the existing tests or build checks pass.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- c, swift
- Domain
- operating-systems
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100