Andrei Alexandrescu Wrote: > On 11/29/10 5:48 AM, Andrej Mitrovic wrote: > > The licensing issues with DMD. I get the feeling we would have many > > more contributors to the reference compiler and have bugs fixed at a > > much faster rate than right now. Walter is already working at 110% of > > his abilities, at least that's the impression I get. I think maybe D2 > > has grown beyond anyone's expectations, so now the compiler team > > (Walter& Don I guess?) has to chase down all the features that D2 is > > supossed to have and implement them. > > > > I don't think its feasible for such a small team to fix that many bugs > > for a huge language like D2, at least not in a short-term timeline. > > And Bugzilla seems to grow day by day with no end in sight. > > One metric I proposed to Walter is the "bug age", i.e. the date of the > oldest unfixed bug. If we prioritize bugs by importance first and > chronological second, I think we can get into a schedule that > systematically reduces the age of the oldest bug and then keep it > constant. Right now the process of choosing which bug to fix next is > unstructured. > > Andrei > Hope eventually to have a discuss of the list of mistakes and their solutions.
bye dolive
