Opportunities for D

[safety0ff via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 10 July 2014 at 16:55:34 UTC, H. S. Teoh via 
Digitalmars-d wrote:
>
> Since we're on this topic, I wish somebody would review this PR:
>
> 	https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/2276

I'm not familiar enough with algoFormat to say that I've 
"reviewed it."
In retrospect, adding that as comment would have been better than 
silence.

> Some of these bugs have been
> around for a while, and only recently have I found the time to 
> actually
> do something about it... only to get ignored. Other than some 
> comments
> from bearophile, I've seen no comments from anyone else, and 
> it's been
> almost 2 weeks, so right now I don't even know what else to do.
>
> I suspect this is one of the problems (perceived or otherwise) 
> with the
> current PR process. A lot of work is just sitting there without 
> even an
> acknowledgement from a bystander, so to speak, and the few that 
> do get
> some attention, after comments have been addressed, continue to 
> sit
> there with no indication of whether the change is unacceptable, 
> or
> uninteresting, or interesting but people are too busy to look 
> at it, or
> what. Sometimes I just stare at the PR page day after day 
> asking, is
> something missing? Do people expect any other changes?  Are 
> people too
> busy to even look at it? Even a casual remark as "I'll get 
> around to
> this on the weekend (or next month, or, for that matter, next 
> *year*)"
> would help bolster morale significantly. Letting things sit in 
> limbo
> without so much as a comment, says, intentionally or not, that 
> we just
> don't care, and that's very discouraging to potential 
> contributors.

This is exactly the typical contributor experience.

> Now I'm not saying this with any bitterness, and, having a 
> full-time job
> myself plus countless other responsibilities with family, etc., 
> I
> totally understand that sometimes people are just too busy to 
> respond.

It's difficult to believe that everybody is too busy to review 
PRs yet have ample time to invest in the most futile of forum 
discussions.