SDC needs you

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 4/16/2015 10:47 AM, Michel Fortin wrote:
> On 2015-04-16 06:50:35 +0000, Jacob Carlborg <doob at me.com> said:
>
>> I've been working on the Objective-C support for quite a while. I'm on my
>> third rewrite due to comments in previous pull requests. The latest pull
>> request [1] was created in January, it's basically been stalled since February
>> due to lack of review and Walter has not made a single comment at all in this
>> pull request.
>>
>> I did the rewrites to comply with the requests Walter made in previous pull
>> requests. Although not present as a bugzilla issue with the "preapproved" tag,
>> I did interpreted it as preapproved based on a forum post made by you [2].
>>
>> I know that focus has shifted to GC, reference counting, C++ and so on, but
>> you're not making it easy for someone to contribute.
>>
>> [1] https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/4321
>> [2] http://forum.dlang.org/post/lfoe82$17c0$1@digitalmars.com
>
> Back at the time I was working on D/Objective-C, my separate work on a feature
> proposed in pull #3 (that const(Object)ref thing) got a similar treatment: no
> comment from Walter in months. It's time-consuming to maintain a complex pull
> request against a changing master branch, and it was abandoned at some point
> because I got tired of maintaining it with no review in sight.
>
> Using Github was a new thing back then, so I didn't necessarily expect the
> review to go smoothly given #3 isn't a trivial change. But getting no comment at
> all made me rethink things. It made me dread a similar fate would await
> D/Objective-C. It was one of the reasons I stopped working on it. Now that Jacob
> has taken over the Herculean task of making it work with current DMD after a few
> years of falling behind and of refactoring it as a series of pull requests by
> sub-feature to make it easier to review, I fear more and more it'll get the same
> treatment as #3, ignored by Walter for several months (that's where we are now)
> and then abandoned (when Jacob patience and/or spare time runs out).
>
> It would be sad to see all those efforts wasted.

Yes it would. The problem is I have a hard time reviewing complex things I don't 
understand, so I procrastinate. The fault is mine, not with your work.