Opportunities for D

[Sean Kelly via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 10 July 2014 at 18:25:56 UTC, H. S. Teoh via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 06:01:09PM +0000, safety0ff via
>> 
>> This is exactly the typical contributor experience.
>
> Which we must change if we're going to increase D adoption.
> Unfortunately, I don't see any good solution to this, except 
> just hoping
> for more contributors to pick up different pieces of Phobos as 
> their
> "passion" and become the "lieutenant" for that part of it. But 
> that
> requires first of all that contributors are motivated to 
> contribute, yet
> the current situation isn't encouraging them to join in. It's a 
> vicious
> cycle, and I don't know how to break it.

I think part of this will have to come from a policy change
regarding pull requests.  I propose that any pull request must
either be merged or rejected within one month of submission.  I'd
rather see a request rejected with an explanation than for it to
languish in revision hell for months or years while people slowly
iterate on changes.  It's better in my minds to submit a request,
have it rejected with comments, fix and resubmit multiple times
than to have pull requests just sitting in the queue forever with
no one knowing what their status is.