On 2009-10-11 03:56:55 -0400, "Denis Koroskin" <2kor...@gmail.com> said:
I submitted a few Phobos bugs to bugzilla. They are still not
addressed. Having 2-3 people with write access to Phobos is clearly
not enough - there is not enough human power. That's bugzilla entries
are left without answers, bugs are not fixed.
I don't submit them anymore. It just doesn't work. I see a lot of
quirks in Phobos, huge performance problems (it allocates every time,
often without any reason) and just typos.
Given a direct svn access, I could easily fix some of them, but I'm too
lazy to waste my time on creating one line long patches, making
bugzilla reports, etc. And what then? Waiting like 3 years until they
are addressed? No, thanks.
Somehow I wonder if a distributed versioning system wouldn't be better
to encourage public participation and make it easy for maintainers to
accept patches. It'd be easy for me and others to maintain their own
fork of Phobos with their own fixes while we test them, and for Phobos
maintainers to review, select and merge back in the mainline any
addition (whole branches or single commits) made in those forks. It'd
be a much more automated process than applying patches from bugzilla,
and that way you don't have to give access to the mainline to a lot of
people. It'd require people to know the tool though.
--
Michel Fortin
michel.for...@michelf.com
http://michelf.com/
