Some Observations on the D Development Process

[Walter Bright]

On 1/5/2018 6:26 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> For my projects, even if a PR isn't perfect, unless it is just plain bad or goes 
> in a direction I strongly disagree with, I'll merge it anyway pretty quickly and 
> just fix up the bits I don't like later myself.
> 
> So if something is OK but not great.... don't close it, merge it! Just fix it up 
> after and leave a note for the original PR author showing your fixup commit so 
> they can learn from it next time.

The compiler is far too complex for that. It increases the technical debt.

I have pulled many PRs like that, and they've just resulted in regressions and 
even more work for me to do.