Assault & battery on pull requests

Andrei Alexandrescu SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org
Sun Mar 16 14:46:14 PDT 2014


I've been looking at 6000+ messages about dlang pull requests and their 
associated chatter during the past couple of days. While at it I pulled 
a bunch of requests, and by this I'm asking you to join me.

I have accumulated a bunch of insight in short term memory, among which 
(1) people are happy to work on a variety of things if given just a 
little vision and guidance; (2) it is more difficult yet more productive 
in the long run to shepherd a weak submission with good parts to 
completion, than to dismiss it for its defects; (3) being able to drain 
the request pipeline effectively is key to D's success.

Please join me in reviewing submissions to 
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/. It doesn't matter if you're 
on the commit team - you only need to be on github, and any meaningful 
review matters. This is much more important, and offers a lot more 
leverage, than spending the same time posting on the forum.

After my review binge, Phobos open pull requests are 44, a historical 
low. Please hop on and let's drain that pipe entirely!


Thanks,

Andrei


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