Re: Please Congratulate My New Assistant

2021-01-25 Thread Timon Gehr via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 25.01.21 21:03, Paul Backus wrote: On Monday, 25 January 2021 at 12:48:48 UTC, Imperatorn wrote: But, at the same time, I guess it could be a bit demoralizing you know? That's true. I beg to differ. Open issues are not demoralizing. Sometimes, reality is demoralizing. That doesn't mean w

Re: Please Congratulate My New Assistant

2021-01-25 Thread jmh530 via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 25 January 2021 at 21:25:28 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: [snip] I think we're looking at this in the wrong way. [snip] AKA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law

Re: Please Congratulate My New Assistant

2021-01-25 Thread H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 08:03:53PM +, Paul Backus via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > On Monday, 25 January 2021 at 12:48:48 UTC, Imperatorn wrote: > > But, at the same time, I guess it could be a bit demoralizing you > > know? > > That's true. Sometimes, reality is demoralizing. That doesn't

Re: Please Congratulate My New Assistant

2021-01-25 Thread Paul Backus via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 25 January 2021 at 12:48:48 UTC, Imperatorn wrote: But, at the same time, I guess it could be a bit demoralizing you know? That's true. Sometimes, reality is demoralizing. That doesn't mean we should hide our heads in the sand and ignore it. It's kinda obvious when you push it to

Re: Please Congratulate My New Assistant

2021-01-25 Thread Imperatorn via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 25 January 2021 at 13:04:42 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote: On 25.01.21 11:05, Imperatorn wrote: On Monday, 25 January 2021 at 06:59:00 UTC, ag0aep6g wrote: On 25.01.21 07:46, Imperatorn wrote: Proposed solution: Archive issues older than 10 years (and maybe some critera based on latest upd

Re: Please Congratulate My New Assistant

2021-01-25 Thread Timon Gehr via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 25.01.21 13:48, Imperatorn wrote: On Monday, 25 January 2021 at 10:39:14 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 1/24/2021 10:46 PM, Imperatorn wrote: Imo it's reasonable to close or archive issues that are older than 10 years. We are not going to do that just because they are old. If a bug still ex

Re: Please Congratulate My New Assistant

2021-01-25 Thread Timon Gehr via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 25.01.21 11:05, Imperatorn wrote: On Monday, 25 January 2021 at 06:59:00 UTC, ag0aep6g wrote: On 25.01.21 07:46, Imperatorn wrote: Proposed solution: Archive issues older than 10 years (and maybe some critera based on latest updated). If they are relevant, it's the authors responsibility t

Re: Please Congratulate My New Assistant

2021-01-25 Thread Imperatorn via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 25 January 2021 at 10:39:14 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 1/24/2021 10:46 PM, Imperatorn wrote: Imo it's reasonable to close or archive issues that are older than 10 years. We are not going to do that just because they are old. If a bug still exists in the current DMD, the bug repor

Re: Please Congratulate My New Assistant

2021-01-25 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 1/24/2021 10:46 PM, Imperatorn wrote: Imo it's reasonable to close or archive issues that are older than 10 years. We are not going to do that just because they are old. If a bug still exists in the current DMD, the bug report stays open.

Re: Please Congratulate My New Assistant

2021-01-25 Thread Imperatorn via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 25 January 2021 at 06:59:00 UTC, ag0aep6g wrote: On 25.01.21 07:46, Imperatorn wrote: Proposed solution: Archive issues older than 10 years (and maybe some critera based on latest updated). If they are relevant, it's the authors responsibility to update the issue so that it's repro