On Thursday, 10 July 2014 at 16:55:34 UTC, H. S. Teoh via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
Since we're on this topic, I wish somebody would review this PR:
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/2276
I'm not familiar enough with algoFormat to say that I've
"reviewed it."
In retrospect, adding that as comment would have been better than
silence.
Some of these bugs have been
around for a while, and only recently have I found the time to
actually
do something about it... only to get ignored. Other than some
comments
from bearophile, I've seen no comments from anyone else, and
it's been
almost 2 weeks, so right now I don't even know what else to do.
I suspect this is one of the problems (perceived or otherwise)
with the
current PR process. A lot of work is just sitting there without
even an
acknowledgement from a bystander, so to speak, and the few that
do get
some attention, after comments have been addressed, continue to
sit
there with no indication of whether the change is unacceptable,
or
uninteresting, or interesting but people are too busy to look
at it, or
what. Sometimes I just stare at the PR page day after day
asking, is
something missing? Do people expect any other changes? Are
people too
busy to even look at it? Even a casual remark as "I'll get
around to
this on the weekend (or next month, or, for that matter, next
*year*)"
would help bolster morale significantly. Letting things sit in
limbo
without so much as a comment, says, intentionally or not, that
we just
don't care, and that's very discouraging to potential
contributors.
This is exactly the typical contributor experience.
Now I'm not saying this with any bitterness, and, having a
full-time job
myself plus countless other responsibilities with family, etc.,
I
totally understand that sometimes people are just too busy to
respond.
It's difficult to believe that everybody is too busy to review
PRs yet have ample time to invest in the most futile of forum
discussions.
