Four new committers on github: AndrejMitrovic, ibuclaw, klickverbot, and rainers

[Dmitry Olshansky]

08-Mar-2013 00:55, Andrei Alexandrescu пишет:
> Hello everyone,
>
>
> I'm happy to announce we have four new committers to our project on
> github: AndrejMitrovic, ibuclaw, klickverbot, and rainers.
>

Congrats guys!

> Lots of cool things are happening nowadays in D, what with DConf gearing
> up, the rise of private and corporate use, and the swelling of
> contributions. Yet we should see those as mere stepping stones toward
> much bigger destinations.
>
> Short term, we need to improve process to the point where we can
> successfully "drain" contributions from the community, and scale up
> organizationally so we could absorb 10x and 100x more. There are 158
> pull requests for all components combined (http://goo.gl/0Ar7b), most or
> all written by highly talented and motivated people. It is key to
> improve our ability to absorb these contributions and attract more of such.
>

There is got to be more effective process to merge stuff. Current 
situation involves ping-pong between commiter/reviewer and contributor 
on every minor nit there is. That basically involves reviewing the same 
exact code few times over as cleanup arrives some days later. And even 
when contributor think he did cleanup something, he/she may as well miss 
what's the deal and the cycle repeats.

Instead it's definitely possible for committer to checkout the pull, do 
an extra cleanup commit (with automatic tool possibly, like detab/toln 
and I'd love to see official "indent" for D) and push it to the main 
repo. (Or squash the commits. This doesn't cancel out reviewing anything 
non-trivial by at least 2 persons.)

> That's in the short term. On a longer horizon, we are now at a point
> where many programmers have heard of D, and fortunately past the entire
> "what's the deal with tango and phobos" morass. The strategic item to
> work on now is to improve the quality of the language definition and the
> implementation of the reference front-end. The word on the street is
> that D is okay for the straight stuff, but fuzzy at the corners if you
> get into the esoteric. And we won't make it big for being as good as the
> "straight stuff" as anyone else (though that's a precondition), but by
> consistently showing that the differential features of D are delivering
> big time.
>
> So quality is the keyword to live by. And I think by adding four
> high-octane committers to the team we're taking a step in the right
> direction. Please join me in congratulating them!
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andrei


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Dmitry Olshansky