Am Sat, 12 Jul 2014 13:27:26 -0700 schrieb Walter Bright <newshou...@digitalmars.com>:
> On 7/10/2014 10:53 PM, deadalnix wrote: > > Most of them never gathered any attention. > > Sometimes, when the idea is right, you still need to get behind and > push it. "Build it and they will come" is a stupid hollywood fantasy. > > I've also written DIPs, which garnered zero comments. I implemented > them, and the PR's sat there for some time, until I finally harangued > some people via email to get them pulled. > > I'm not complaining, I'm just saying that's just how it is. The DIPs > were for things that looked obscure and were technically complex, a > surefire recipe for a collective yawn even though I knew they were > crucial (inferring uniqueness). > > If you're looking for lots of comments, start a nice bikeshedding > thread about whitespace conventions :-) > But you've got some nice bonus: If somebody doesn't like your pull request you can just merge it anyway. But if you veto something the only one who can probably merge anyway is Andrei.