D future ...

lobo via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Tue Dec 20 12:29:24 PST 2016


On Tuesday, 20 December 2016 at 08:20:32 UTC, LiNbO3 wrote:
> 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.

The perceived lack of focus is another matter, which I agree is 
disconcerting. I say perceived because I'm sure there is focus 
and a plan but it isn't visible from the outside. The core dev 
team seem to jump from one thing to the next with nothing going 
pushed thought the last 10% to completion so it all feels 90% 
complete.

bye,
lobo




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