Perhaps I'm just a bit pushie

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Sunday, October 27, 2013 20:17:48 Danny Arends wrote:
> Hey there,
> 
> I was just wondering how long it takes for a pull request to get
> merged...
> I know that if its very controversial it can take weeks, but well
> I've submitted a minor patch to change some errors into
> exceptions (and add a more explanatory error msg)...
> 
> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/1659
> 
> I know the alloca calls in there are troublesome but the behavior
> doesn't change (except for the fact that now on alloca failure, a
> better error is thrown)
> 
> See: https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/1659
> 
> Perhaps I'm just pushie, but well its my first pull request and
> would love to see my web server return some 'meaningful
> exception' from the standard library.
> 
> No offense, you're all doing a great job with D

It varies considerably how long it takes for things to get merged. Sometimes 
it's fairly quick, but often it takes a while. The reasons for it vary, but it 
generally revolves around the fact that everyone working on D is a volunteer 
and manpower or availability can become a problem (though if something is 
controversial, that certainly doesn't help). The fact that pull requests 
aren't generally merged faster is on of the things that really worries Andrei 
and that he's brought up several times. We'd like to do better.

- Jonathan M Davis