DMD backend quality (Was: Re: DIP 1031--Deprecate Brace-Style Struct Initializers--Community Review Round 1 Discussion)

[jxel]

On Monday, 17 February 2020 at 19:35:53 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 2/17/2020 10:45 AM, jxel wrote:
>> That doesn't mean they will get merged. There's lots of PR 
>> open that have been open for years without any sort of 
>> feedback. Why would anybody waste their free time to simply 
>> have their work ignored?
>
> The dmd compiler itself has 24,254 commits from 195 
> contributors.
>
>   https://github.com/dlang/dmd
>
> Phobos has 17,927 commits from 367 contributors.
>
>   https://github.com/dlang/phobos
>
> Druntime has 7,023 commits from 198 contributors.
>
>   https://github.com/dlang/druntime

The contributions drop to single digits fairly quickly. People 
aren't coming back to contribute, I wonder why. Pointing to 
numbers doesn't mean there's are countless PR that are being 
neglected. All you are showing is that only the handful of people 
that can just ask someone else to merge their work gets it merged 
regularly.