I close BIP27. I won't be pursuing BIPs anymore

[Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 16 October 2016 at 22:17:15 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
> Long story short, it si clearly a waste of time. Qualifying the 
> process would be an understatement.
>
> Some specifically DIP27 has been written in Feb 2913, following 
> various discussion at that time. I pushed it at the time. I 
> moved it to the new git DIP repository. Got mostly irrelevant 
> feedback (Hi Martin) and more generaly the loop time is 
> measured in month.
>
> I'm doing this on my free time. I have other things to do.
>
> The DIP process is beyond broken. It essentially goes as :
>  - If you are Andrei or Walter, then your DIP is just a 
> formality. No matter how bad it is, it is in (Hi DIP25, inout 
> turned out so great for type qualifier we clearly need that for 
> lifetime).
>  - If anybody else does it, you have no idea what you are 
> getting into. You'll be still there in 5 years with no end in 
> sight.
>
> I've been a sucker for long enough. I'm not playing anymore and 
> I'd suggest to anyone playing to stop. I've probably be playing 
> longer than pretty much anyone here. Trust the bitter old man, 
> he knows.

It's not just DIPs, that pretty much fits my experience with 
dmd/phobos PRs, too. The only feedback is trivial nitpicking, and 
then you spend a year or so babysitting an endless stream of 
rebases just for it to keep getting ignored.