Opportunities for D

[Johannes Pfau via Digitalmars-d]

Am Thu, 10 Jul 2014 08:50:12 -0700
schrieb Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org>:

> On 7/10/14, 7:54 AM, Dicebot wrote:
> >> E.g.
> > https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/1527 is some
> > apparently work that's just sitting there abandoned.
> >
> > Hm, slightly OT: is it considered widely acceptable to take over
> > such pull requests by reopening rebased one with identical content?
> > I presume Boost licensing implies so but not sure everyone else
> > expects the same.
> 
> That's totally on topic! I think it's fair game to take over pull 
> requests of which authors did not respond to repeated pings. -- Andrei

I agree, but it's probably a good idea to keep the author name in the
git history.

In git author/committer can be different, see
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18750808/difference-between-author-and-committer-in-git