Please Congratulate My New Assistant

[Max Haughton]

On Sunday, 24 January 2021 at 12:36:16 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote:
> On 18.01.21 10:21, Mike Parker wrote:
>> Thanks once more to Symmetry Investments, we have a new paid 
>> staffer in the D Language Foundation family.
>> 
>> Though I call him my "assistant", I can already see he will be 
>> more than that. He'll be taking some things off my shoulders, 
>> sure, but he also has ideas of his own to bring into the mix. 
>> Adding him to the team is certain to be a boon for the D 
>> community.
>> 
>> So, a word of warning to those of you who haven't heard from 
>> me in a while pestering you for blog posts: get used to the 
>> name "Max Haughton".
>> 
>> And congratulate him while you're at it!
>
> Congratulations. However, Max seems to be just closing all 
> enhancement requests on bugzilla as invalid. This is the 
> behavior of a vandal. Please stop. Any policy that requires 
> this is ill-advised. Issues are valuable and binning them like 
> this is disrespectful to the time of the reporters.

I was going through trying to close things that are either not 
bugs anymore because they haven't been touched from 2010 and 
they've been fixed by entropy, or language changes which will 
never be looked at again because they aren't DIPs. They're still 
in public record but fundamentally they're just not useful 
anymore - I was literally just going through bugs FILO and trying 
to either reproduce or at least characterise whether they even 
can be acted on by the foundation.

It's entirely possible I was overzealous and if I was, obviously 
reopen them but ultimately the enhancements have to go through a 
DIP because it's not 2012 anymore.

I also updated Stephen S's shared-delegate race condition bug to 
have a test case that actually compiles, and that's from 2010 - 
theadsan catches it now although it doesn't work with @safe 
either so I'm not sure whether we should be embarrassed or not.