Phobos.testing

[Daniel de Kok]

On 2009-10-11 14:13:22 +0200, Michel Fortin <michel.fortin at michelf.com> said:

> On 2009-10-11 03:56:55 -0400, "Denis Koroskin" <2korden at gmail.com> said:
> 
>> I submitted a few Phobos bugs to bugzilla. They are still not 
>> addressed.  Having 2-3 people with write access to Phobos is clearly 
>> not enough -  there is not enough human power. That's bugzilla entries 
>> are left without  answers, bugs are not fixed.
>> 
>> I don't submit them anymore. It just doesn't work. I see a lot of 
>> quirks  in Phobos, huge performance problems (it allocates every time, 
>> often  without any reason) and just typos.
>> Given a direct svn access, I could easily fix some of them, but I'm too 
>>  lazy to waste my time on creating one line long patches, making 
>> bugzilla  reports, etc. And what then? Waiting like 3 years until they 
>> are  addressed? No, thanks.
> 
> Somehow I wonder if a distributed versioning system wouldn't be better 
> to encourage public participation and make it easy for maintainers to 
> accept patches.

It would, systems like git make it far easier to fork/diff/merge than 
Subversion. Subversion is a bit of a pain, where you end up either 
having no version management except for a diff against the upstream 
repository or a local subversion tree that does not have a relation 
with the Phobos tree.

Of course, you could partically go distributed by using git-svn to 
check out the Phobos Subversion repository.

-- Daniel