Biggest Issue with D - Definition and Versioning

[Peter Alexander]

On 13/01/12 3:05 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 1/13/12 12:08 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
>>> You've said to post bugs, but these don't receive any attention. For
>>> example,
>>> here's two bugs about the lack of documentation on .stringof, one from
>>> 2009 and
>>> one from early 2011:
>>>
>>> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3007
>>> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=5404
>>>
>>> Neither of which have received any comments or clarifications.
>>
>> I'm sorry about that, but I'm running as fast as I can, along with the
>> help of a number of prolific contributors. As you can see by the
>> changelog, there are a zillion issues that do get resolved every month.
>
> One important metric we currently neglect is the date of the oldest bug
> or pull request. If we work on improving that with each release, we give
> a submitter confidence that their bug will be resolved in reasonable
> time. A simple policy like "address the oldest 3 bugzilla entries in
> each release" would be very healthy.

Yes, this would be very good, although I suspect we would quickly hit 
roadblock bugs, i.e. ones that require a massive amount of work (e.g. 
64-bit Windows support) or those that require fundamental changes to the 
language and require extra consideration (e.g. const postblit).