Summer cleanup on https://issues.dlang.org

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 6/9/15 12:33 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
> On Tuesday, 9 June 2015 at 19:15:41 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> The decision stands. Too many obscure choices presented with equal
>> importance is just a bad user experience.
>
> There is more to this than just user experience.
>
> If you go to file a bug in a large mature project, for example KDE or
> Firefox, you'll see that their Bugzilla instances have myriads of
> projects, components and subcomponents. There is actually an important
> reason for this: each component can have a maintainer, who will be
> notified and automatically assigned to the bug. If a maintainer resigns,
> his components can be divided among others.

A good point to keep in mind for the future. Until now we had a 
fragmentation that served nobody and was a net negative. Culling that is 
an improvement.

> I have long thought that we should encourage "ownership" of parts of
> Phobos (and the project as a whole). For example, I'm interested in
> receiving bug reports and reviewing PRs concerning std.file and
> std.process (but not e.g. std.algorithm). Bugzilla has the capability of
> automatically choosing an assignee for the respective component, we
> would just need to configure it.

I think that's awesome. I'd say let's chunk Phobos into subcomponents 
once we have, say, five folks who want to chip in. For now we just need 
an ombudsman to dispatch all Phobos issues to... well, to the up to four 
folks who will sign up until that :o).


Andrei