i want my bounty!

[Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d]

On 12/14/14 4:41 AM, ketmar via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> there is preapproved bounty ER in bugzilla:
> https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11070
>
> i did that, where is my bounty?!
>
> but talking seriously, i don't need any bounty, i just want somebody to
> take a look at that and either tell me what to fix or integrate it in
> mainline. along with this one: https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13526
>
> they are small, but nice additions. i'm using that patches on dayly
> basis and didn't found any troubles with them. please, take those, so i
> can throw away two .patch files from my build directory! ;-)

It's already been said, and by me before this, use github. If you don't 
you have relegated yourself to this existence you so despise.

As a practical matter, I see emails for every message posted on github. 
I may not respond to all of them due to my limited time, but I do look 
at ones that pertain to my area in the runtime/phobos. I can see the 
patch online, without having to download it, apply it and test it. I can 
add comments to specific lines. The auto tester tests it. Only github 
PRs will be accepted into mainline, not patches on bugzilla, because of 
the auto tester. This means that your patch must be turned into a PR, 
and then whoever turns it in must support it if it needs fixing. A 
previous incarnation of this "development process" did not go well, as 
your response was "what, peasant? I don't care, that's my patch take it 
or leave it." It doesn't surprise me that your patch was "missed" or 
ignored.

I can tell you from experience before we used github, development on D 
was so freaking slow, you would be complaining to no end if it were 
still that way. The PR system is orders of magnitude better and faster.

If you want patches included quickly (or at least quicker), add them as 
PRs to github, and be prepared to fix them if necessary. If you think D 
ecosystem will crash and burn because of your intransigence, you are 
free to have that opinion, but most of us here do not share it (and you 
aren't the first to express it). I don't think your contributions are 
low-value, just high overhead. Most of us don't have time for that.

-Steve