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On Tuesday, 20 December 2016 at 06:42:10 UTC, lobo wrote:
> On Tuesday, 20 December 2016 at 04:38:03 UTC, Jerry wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 20 December 2016 at 04:14:33 UTC, Andrei 
>> Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> On 12/19/2016 11:12 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>>> [...]
>>>
>>> https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16991
>>
>> Another issue onto the list of thousands, to collect dust for 
>> the next few years til someone decides they want to use their 
>> personal time to fix it. Just to highlight another problem, 
>> there's a lot of trivial to fix issues. Just maintenance 
>> really, like that one you posted. But there is no one going 
>> through fixing them. Well that one might end up getting fixed 
>> cause of the extra exposure.
>
> Maybe you could fix one or two? As you say they're trivial and 
> apparently no one else is doing it.
>
> bye,
> lobo

And have the patch wait in the PR queue until the end of time, 
not even acknowledged at all ?
The lack of focus goes hand in hand with the lack of manpower 
with some not-so-great results like we're seeing right now, at 
least IMO.