On 2009-10-11 14:13:22 +0200, Michel Fortin <michel.for...@michelf.com> said:
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 would, systems like git make it far easier to fork/diff/merge than
Subversion. Subversion is a bit of a pain, where you end up either
having no version management except for a diff against the upstream
repository or a local subversion tree that does not have a relation
with the Phobos tree.
Of course, you could partically go distributed by using git-svn to
check out the Phobos Subversion repository.
-- Daniel
