phobo's std.file is completely broke!

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Saturday, September 15, 2018 7:19:46 PM MDT tide via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Sunday, 16 September 2018 at 00:53:45 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
>
> wrote:
> > On Saturday, September 15, 2018 6:28:20 PM MDT Vladimir
> >
> > Panteleev via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> >> On Sunday, 16 September 2018 at 00:14:12 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
> >>
> >> wrote:
> >> > As for figuring out who is "officially" part of the dlang
> >> > org (or at least has the rights to merge PRs from at least
> >> > one dlang repo), you can look here
> >> >
> >> > https://github.com/orgs/dlang/people
> >> >
> >> > though it's possible to hide your membership, so while I see
> >> > 59 members when I look at it while signed in, if I look at
> >> > it while not signed in, I see only 40.
> >>
> >> I think it's worth clarifying: Only Walter and Andrei have the
> >> final say on things. Everyone else is a contributor (with a
> >> small few financially rewarded for their work). So, the above
> >> list of people isn't a good metric for much other than knowing
> >> who can merge your PR.
> >
> > Yeah, the list is mostly of folks who have contributed
> > significantly enough to have been given merge permissions at
> > some point. Some of us may have some influence based on how
> > long we've been with the project and the level of knowledge and
> > expertise that we've shown in the process, but as far as
> > deciding the direction of the project or anything like that,
> > it's all Walter and Andrei. The primary influence that any of
> > us have is simply by the work we contribute via PRs and the
> > feedback we give when reviewing PRs. It's not like there's a
> > hierarchy of authority or anything like that. For the most
> > part, the only authority that Walter and Andrei have given
> > others is the authority to merge PRs.
>
> I guess that's why Bugzilla is a complete disaster. No one, at
> all, is maintaining it. As there are only 2 people that can
> really maintain it, and I don't see either of them commenting on
> bugs to provide direction, at least very often.

Pretty much everything done around here is done by volunteers. There are
contributors who sometimes go through bugzilla to update or close bugs, and
there are contributors who go looking through bugzilla for bugs to fix, but
there is no one whose job it is to manage the list of bugs. I don't know of
any open source project that works that way. Usually, at most, you end up
with bugs being automatically assigned to people based on what they're for.

- Jonathan M Davis