Standard Library Concerns (Phobos / Tango)

[Jason House]

Walter Bright Wrote:
> The people currently who can commit changes are:
> 
> Walter Bright
> Brad Roberts
> Andrei Alexandrescu
> Sean Kelley
> Janice Caron
> Don Clugston
> 
> Anyone else can propose changes by submitting the patches to bugzilla. 
> However, the bar is pretty high for that; submissions must contain the 
> following:
> 
> 1) unittests that prove it works
> 2) ddoc style documentation (for new functionality)
> 3) documentation must include sample of use (for new functionality)
> 
> If the patches don't include these, please still submit them, but 
> they'll tend to get lower priority because someone else has to complete 
> them. So, generally, the more thorough the patch is, the speedier it 
> will be to get it in.
> 
> Also, patches which require a license that is different from the one in 
> the module being patched cannot be accepted.

I hope that issues containing incomplete patches or patches with a bad license get a comment added to them explaining that they're being made lower priority or are rejected outright.  That helps achieve two things: 1. People won't complain as hard about incomplete patches not getting accepted in a timely manner.  2. Those who are really interested in a particular patch will complete it in order to speed up the acceptance process.