phobo's std.file is completely broke!

[Vladimir Panteleev]

On Sunday, 16 September 2018 at 01:19:46 UTC, tide wrote:
> 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.

Well, I think that's looking at the situation from the wrong 
angle.

Most of D's code was written by volunteer contributors, and 
usually the code's author ends up maintaining that code, at least 
for a while. So, when you find a bug in some part of D and can't 
fix it yourself, looking at who wrote or last maintained the 
relevant code and pinging them would be the first step.

There are some things we can improve, like upgrading the platform 
or improving the categorization so people can receive 
notifications when someone files a bug in a Phobos module they 
care about. I've been slowly working on that front 
(https://github.com/CyberShadow/bugzilla-meta), but it doesn't 
change the underlying facts that bugs are most likely to be fixed 
by people who work on the code, not Andrei or Walter or any one 
person "in charge" of Bugzilla.