Dicebot on leaving D: It is anarchy driven development in all its glory.

[jmh530]

On Friday, 24 August 2018 at 17:12:53 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
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> This is probably completely unrealistic, but I've been thinking 
> about the possibility of adding *all* D codebases to the CI 
> infrastructure, including personal projects and what-not.  Set 
> it up such that any breakages send a notification to the 
> author(s) in advance of a PR being checked in, so that they 
> have time to respond.  I'm not sure how this would work in 
> practice since you have to deal with dead / unmaintained 
> projects and/or slow/unresponsive authors, and some PRs you 
> might want to push through regardless of breakage.  But it 
> would be nice to know exactly how much code we're breaking out 
> there.

A worthy goal. If you could get some download statistics from dub 
(i.e. like total downloads past month), then you could probably 
create a few buckets and rules so you could make sure that there 
aren't breakages in the most downloaded projects while not 
worrying about dead projects that aren't being downloaded anyway.