Congratulations to the D Team!

[Paulo Pinto]

On Monday, 9 July 2012 at 06:37:30 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote:
> Ladies and Gentlemen,
>
> Today is a day to celebrate! By the time many of you read this 
> you will be waking up to a new day, and too a new D. As of 0530 
> 07/09/2012 UTC the programmers and testers of the D Development 
> Team have merged an unprecedented 37 pull requests; all in a 
> single day.
>
> A breakdown of the merges by project:
> DMD:		5  (05% of open pull requests)
> DRuntime:   17 (55% of open pull requests)
> Phobos:     14 (56% of open pull requests)
> DPL.org:    4  (50% of open pull requests)
>
> First I want to mention two people who really helped make this 
> day happen.
> Jonathan M. Davis: For creating, testing, and submitting a 
> patch that he was opposed to in std.datetime. This was a 
> gentlemanly thing to do, and we applaud you for it.
> Alex Ronne Peterson: For his heroic efforts in fixing any 
> errors in the merges as they arose and particularly for his 
> efforts in fixing const-related errors.
>
> Next I would like to draw your attention to a couple of major 
> improvements to D that were made today:
> Object is now const-correct throughout D. This has been a dream 
> for many of you. Today it is a reality.
> Aliases for the 'dur' template. For example, you can now call 
> 3.minutes() and receive a Duration.
>
> Also merged where fixes for the following issues:
> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=7965
> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=8274
> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=7375
> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4809
> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=5547
> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1824
> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=5011
> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=8323	
>
> I want to extend congratulations to the D Team and especially 
> the members that were involved in today's pull request audit 
> and merge. Because of you D is a better tool today than it has 
> ever been.
>
> I also hope that these weekly Sunday Pull Audits will continue 
> in the future as they will help propel D forward to new heights 
> of reliability and usability. What the Team has accomplished is 
> truly extraordinary, but we have a long way to go.
>
> As a final note. If you are using Git-HEAD builds of D for your 
> development work, I strongly suggest that you update DMD, 
> DRuntime, and Phobos at the same time. The Object-const correct 
> changes affected all three of those projects and attempting to 
> build any one of them without applying the changes to each of 
> them will result in build failures. I also strongly suggest 
> that those intrepid D users who are using Git-HEAD for their 
> regular D work upgrade and report any bugs you find with the 
> new code. With your help, 2.060 will be the best release of D 
> yet!
>
> Again, thank you and congratulations to the D Team!

And I just did a git checkout on Saturday! Time to do a refresh.

Great work!