Old bugs

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 10/14/2016 07:17 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 10/14/2016 05:12 AM, Mathias Lang via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> I've been doing a bit of triaging when I got time, trying to get rid of
>> old bugs / duplicated.
>>
>> It's usually easy to confirm a bug if there's a minimal code example, in
>> which case you can just close it. The enhancement requests, however,
>> nobody but a bunch of people in the core team can get rid of them,
>> because they require a decision to be made. So unless there was a
>> discussion where you or Walter agreed on it (like for deprecating comma
>> operator or implicit string concatenation), they just sit there forever.
>>
>> Eventually, with the new DIP process, we could gradually get rid of them
>> by pointing the author to the DIP repo, then let him/her close the bug
>> as he ACK the notification, or do it after a certain time. What do you
>> think ?
>
> Yes, I've already closed a few enhancement requests (such as overhauling
> the syntax of templates) suggesting they are pursued as DIPs. I'll do
> more of that in the future, for now I'm focused on bootcamping select
> issues. If you could lend a hand, please to! -- Andrei

s/please to/please do/