On 2015-04-16 06:50:35 +0000, Jacob Carlborg <[email protected]> said:
I've been working on the Objective-C support for quite a while. I'm on
my third rewrite due to comments in previous pull requests. The latest
pull request [1] was created in January, it's basically been stalled
since February due to lack of review and Walter has not made a single
comment at all in this pull request.
I did the rewrites to comply with the requests Walter made in previous
pull requests. Although not present as a bugzilla issue with the
"preapproved" tag, I did interpreted it as preapproved based on a forum
post made by you [2].
I know that focus has shifted to GC, reference counting, C++ and so on,
but you're not making it easy for someone to contribute.
[1] https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/4321
[2] http://forum.dlang.org/post/[email protected]
Back at the time I was working on D/Objective-C, my separate work on a
feature proposed in pull #3 (that const(Object)ref thing) got a similar
treatment: no comment from Walter in months. It's time-consuming to
maintain a complex pull request against a changing master branch, and
it was abandoned at some point because I got tired of maintaining it
with no review in sight.
Using Github was a new thing back then, so I didn't necessarily expect
the review to go smoothly given #3 isn't a trivial change. But getting
no comment at all made me rethink things. It made me dread a similar
fate would await D/Objective-C. It was one of the reasons I stopped
working on it. Now that Jacob has taken over the Herculean task of
making it work with current DMD after a few years of falling behind and
of refactoring it as a series of pull requests by sub-feature to make
it easier to review, I fear more and more it'll get the same treatment
as #3, ignored by Walter for several months (that's where we are now)
and then abandoned (when Jacob patience and/or spare time runs out).
It would be sad to see all those efforts wasted.
--
Michel Fortin
[email protected]
http://michelf.ca
