On 03/06/2011 07:20 AM, Jason House wrote:
Short of having more Don's, is there anything that can be done to reduce how much time it takes to process patches?

Automated test suite against dmd with the patch? Detection of patches that apply cleanly?

A less automated thing is someone to check if patches come with new tests that verify they do what is intended.


Even that could be automated to some extent:

- apply any part of the patch that updates the tests
- run the tests
- apply the rest
- run the test again

If any test go from pass to fail, flag that. If no test go from fail to pass, flag that.

This wouldn't work with all requests, but some sort of annotation standard for the comments would allow for overriding as well as automation of things like updating bugzilla items.

Etc...

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On Mar 6, 2011, at 1:43 AM, Walter Bright <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

I know, I know, but this piles up faster and faster. 8 new bugzilla reports *just today*. Many come with patches. I fixed one.

Brad Roberts wrote:
Walter, as gatekeeper to dmd, this is primarily addressed to you.  A major 
portion of engaging with a community of
developers is being responsive to their desires to help out.  One of the 
primary reasons we switched to github was
exactly to better engage with the community.  I really think taking more than a 
week to respond to a pull request is
excessive.  Over a month, rather rude.  It's certainly not encouraging anyone 
to continue to invest their time.

So, would you take some time this weekend to catch up?  If there's something 
that you'd like either Don or I to do with
them, speak up.  I'm willing to invest a bit of time if it'd help get the 
change merged in a more timely manner.

Here's the open pull requests for dmd:

   https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/3   Feb 6, 2011
     const(Object) ref

   https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/5   Feb 9, 2011
     Issue 4360 - Allow intrinsics in core.bitop to operate as intrinsics

   https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/6   Feb 13, 2011
     Issue 4833 - map file location obeys -od/-of flags

   https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/7   Feb 13, 2011
     Remove old druntime interface

   https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/10  Feb 20, 2011
     Clarify tuple length error message

   https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/11  Feb 26, 2011
     Issue 3541 - Add -oq to dmd (use fully qualified module name as object 
filename)

   https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/12  Mar 3, 2011
     Bug fixes I threw patches in the past
     (NOTE: looks like at least part of this one needs to be delayed.  Thanks 
for reviewing it Don!)

If you don't think that the code is ready to be pulled, at a minimum, a comment 
needs to be added about what needs to be
done.

Thanks,
Brad
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