[Dlang-internal] The Phantom Zone

[Iain Buclaw]

On Monday, 15 January 2018 at 01:10:58 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> The issue that there are too many aged PRs on github that sit 
> around for years comes up again and again. I've resisted just 
> closing them, because closing them is tantamount to termination 
> with prejudice:
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Termination_of_employment#Rehire_following_termination
>
> and the PR is never seen again. This is squandering our 
> resources. A PR may remain open, but is not pulled, for several 
> reasons:
>
> 1. it needs work, but the author has left the field
> 2. it's a good idea whose time has not yet come
> 3. it's a good idea, but a not good enough implementation, but 
> the PR still contains valuable insight, details, and test cases 
> that would be useful for a more acceptable implementation
> 4. it's large and complex and nobody has been willing to expend 
> the effort to do a proper review.
>
> But github has a feature we can use for this. We tag these PRs 
> with "Phantom Zone" and then close them.
>
> http://superman.wikia.com/wiki/The_Phantom_Zone
> (People with terminal diseases would get put in the Phantom 
> Zone until a cure could be found.)
>
> They can then be viewed via this link:
>
> https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed+label%3A%15Phantom+Zone%15
>
> PRs banished to the Phantom Zone would have to have an 
> explanatory comment saying why.
>
> Andrei has suggested calling it "Limbo".


https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17839

You may have noticed that all those old PRs with a number < 6000 
are assigned to me.

https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pulls?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Apr+no%3Aassignee+sort%3Acreated-asc

Most are either Daniel's or Kenji's, so I hope you find it 
understanding when I say they take a while to sift through and 
make sense of.