Send me your list of D gripes and wishes

Richard (Rikki) Andrew Cattermole richard at cattermole.co.nz
Tue Jan 3 04:12:52 UTC 2023


On 03/01/2023 12:25 PM, Dukc wrote:
> On Sunday, 25 December 2022 at 18:16:59 UTC, Richard (Rikki) Andrew 
> Cattermole wrote:
>> We can't add things to Phobos because of leadership. In the last 10 
>> years we have only added allocators and loggers to experimental, and 
>> only one of them was complete enough to come out of experimental. It 
>> has nothing at all to do with some flag why we can't put things in. It 
>> has always been a nightmare.
> 
> I guess that's true if you're adding an entire module. When adding an 
> individual function, or a new overload of existing one, in my experience 
> the issue main issue is the amount and length of review cycles. It's 
> better now than a few years ago thanks to the PR managers.

Yes absolutely.

Razvan has been doing an amazing job! I do hope he gets to become fully 
paid up full time at some point, because he does bring to the table a 
lot of process improvements.

The problem now is a much higher level one, medium to long term, rather 
than short term. For Phobos anyway.


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