Dmd pull requests coming in to fast?

Maxim Fomin maxim at maxim-fomin.ru
Mon Feb 18 20:51:34 PST 2013


On Tuesday, 19 February 2013 at 00:29:46 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
wrote:
> On Monday, February 18, 2013 22:07:56 Maxim Fomin wrote:
>> I would say that in fall 2011 the number was around 100 (as 
>> far I
>> remember) and a year later it was around 110. It seems to be
>> increasing. I consider this a revelation of a "too many 
>> problems
>> too few people" problem.
>
> With a difference of only ten, it could simply be that there 
> were more in that
> month rather than it's been increasing overall. You need to 
> look at the trend.
> That may show that we're falling behind, or it may we're not. I 
> don't know.
> But even if the trend is that there are more pull requests, it 
> could be that
> they're actually being processed faster, but it's just that 
> there are more in
> the queue at a time, making it so that a pull request takes 
> about as long to
> get processed now as it did a year ago. It very well be that 
> there needs to be
> more people involved, but the fact that there are 10 more 
> requests in the
> queue doesn't mean much.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

Perhaps you are right. Auto-tester actually tracks some 
statistics 
http://d.puremagic.com/test-results/chart.ghtml?projectid=1. 
Judging by weekly pull creators - pull closures the difference is 
often positive, but small.


More information about the Digitalmars-d mailing list