SDC needs you

Jakob Ovrum via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Thu Apr 16 20:08:43 PDT 2015


On Thursday, 16 April 2015 at 06:02:19 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> 1. Challenging Walter on anything and everything seems to have 
> become a rite of passage in our community. Some of the reviews 
> of his code are the most petty and meaningless I've seen in my 
> career, bar none. It doesn't help that he doesn't budge on some 
> of the petty issues, thus a vicious circle gets created. In a 
> recent review, after his code had been pecked within an inch of 
> its death, it took me minutes to find two bugs that nobody had 
> the eyes for in spite of every token of his code having been 
> scrutinized.

It has to be said that Walter's recent work on Phobos has wide 
appeal, is highly interesting (who doesn't like generic 
algorithms?) and relatively easy to review (requires no 
domain-specific knowledge apart from advanced D, perhaps some 
Unicode). In my experience, similarly themed PRs by other authors 
receive a similar amount of scrutiny. I'm hesitant to believe 
Walter's work is being heavily scrutinized just because it's 
Walter.


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