Polishing D on Reddit

[Georg Wrede]

Inverting top-post... :-(

Unknown W. Brackets wrote:
> Georg Wrede wrote:
>> Walter Bright wrote:
>>> Unknown W. Brackets wrote:
>>>> http://www.unknownbrackets.com/tutorials/polishing-d
>> 
>> I entirely agree with the article.
>> 
>> Virtually all of the things mentioned have been discussed
>> repeatedly on this NG, in several episodes, some throughout this
>> millennium.
>> 
>> I can however, from my own experience in similar situations, relate
>> to Walter's subjective situation as the central spider on his
>> "web". Any time he considers doing any of the mentioned things, it
>> *feels* like it would be time wasted because the Main thing (i.e.
>> developing D and DMD) suffer. It doesn't help that one
>> *cognitively* knows that fixing them once and for all literally is
>> more important than a month's worth of D/DMD development. It's
>> simply a case of heart and mind disagreeing. And as we all know,
>> it's the heart that wins.
>> 
>> 
>> What can I say? I simply suggest that Walter take four weeks
>> /totally/ off from the development, and prints out the article, and
>> sets out to fix each single issue, ticking them off with a
>> ball-point pen as they're covered.

> The easiest solution is to let small parts of it go until time
> becomes available to really feel like he can spend time.
> 
> Example:
> 
> Walter might find someone interested in working on frontend or phobos
>  bugs.  When looking at bugs or issues, he might triage them and say 
> "this doesn't look complicated, and it's fixable entirely in phobos."
> 
> 
> Such a bug could easily be assigned to another person.  If Walter
> finds that he's nearing a release and has heard nothing on the bug,
> he can probably take 20 minutes and fix it himself.
> 
> But, saving 20 minutes here, 20 minutes there, and just looking over 
> people's fixes for the simpler bugs, might free up a bit of time and 
> help him decide if he is comfortable with expanding that sort of
 > situation.
> 
> Unlike people, bugs are not all made equal.  It doesn't take a big, 
> cool, state of the art hammer to squash them all.  Some can be taken 
> care of just as effectively with a dusty old shoe.
> 
> But, being proactive and telling someone, "I want you to fix this for
>  me" is going to get him places "if you feel like helping please do" 
> never will.  Volunteers like responsibility, elsewise they wouldn't 
> volunteer.
> 
> Only, as always, my opinion of course.  But with SMF, which was
> entirely volunteer, people didn't do anything until they were given
> something as a responsibility.  And when they were, they were proud
> to be and really put effort into it.  It can be really inspiring.

I was referring to everything else in the article, except bugfixes on 
DMD/Phobos and coding new features.