Hello,
I'm a bit confused as to how the DMD buildbot is supposed to
work: it seems like 50% of the time (ballparked from the first 15
or so pull requests), the buildbot just doesn't report failures
or successes. This bugs (heh) me a little bit because there are
tons of months old pull requests just waiting in the pipeline,
stuck at "Determining merge status". I don't know if this is part
of the review process or caused by the yellow status, but for
instance I've opened up a bug report a week or so prior:
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=10113
and a few days afterwards, a pull request was submitted:
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/2080
which, turns out, was more or less a dup of another pull request,
submitted 6 months ago:
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/1358
However, neither of these pull requests have been merged. And
neither of the bugs have been fixed (my report was a dup of
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2950, submitted 4
years ago!).
So we're stuck with a buildbot system that leaves valuable pull
requests from ever getting merged, and duplicate fixes being
written because previous fixes were submitted and never accepted
so long ago.
On a somewhat related note: Why is the Puremagic bugtracker still
used, when Github has bug tracking with (IMO) better repo
integration, discussion, and searching (which I think we can all
agree on), on a repository *hosted at Github*? I can understand
the reluctance to switch over, but what's keeping us from
accepting new issues on Github, closing Puremagic down from
accepting new requests, and working through the open requests on
Puremagic until all can be taken care of have been?
Thanks for your time,
Dylan Knutson
