On Thursday, 10 July 2014 at 18:25:56 UTC, H. S. Teoh via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 06:01:09PM +0000, safety0ff via
This is exactly the typical contributor experience.
Which we must change if we're going to increase D adoption.
Unfortunately, I don't see any good solution to this, except
just hoping
for more contributors to pick up different pieces of Phobos as
their
"passion" and become the "lieutenant" for that part of it. But
that
requires first of all that contributors are motivated to
contribute, yet
the current situation isn't encouraging them to join in. It's a
vicious
cycle, and I don't know how to break it.
I think part of this will have to come from a policy change
regarding pull requests. I propose that any pull request must
either be merged or rejected within one month of submission. I'd
rather see a request rejected with an explanation than for it to
languish in revision hell for months or years while people slowly
iterate on changes. It's better in my minds to submit a request,
have it rejected with comments, fix and resubmit multiple times
than to have pull requests just sitting in the queue forever with
no one knowing what their status is.
