Patches, bottlenecks, OpenSource

[Leandro Lucarella]

bearophile, el 10 de abril a las 08:09 me escribiste:
> much slow in patching. A fork will not happen in D soon because there
> are not enough people yet that care and work for D enough to make a fork
> viable.

I think there were some sort of forks in the D history. I see Ares/Tango
as a fork of the runtime, and LDC has somehow forked the front-end too to
fix some bugs. But fortunatelly there are still intentions in the
D community to merge the forks. The problem is when Walter is not
responsive enough to the merge requests.

> I suggest to give patching rights to Don, it can be one more step
> forward toward Open Sourcing D development style :-) In future such
> right can be given to other few good people that have shown to deserve
> enough trust.

I agree that having more people with some kind of commit access would
improve the situation.

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