[Dlang-internal] The Phantom Zone

[Rubn]

On Wednesday, 17 January 2018 at 03:23:31 UTC, Walter Bright 
wrote:
> On 1/16/2018 6:57 PM, Brad Roberts wrote:
>> What I'm trying to say is that those should be extremely rare.
>
> Let's frame it another way.
>
> There have been 7733 PRs for dmd. Of these, 140 are open. Let's 
> say 100 of those are stale and candidates for the PZ.
>
> 100/7733 is 1.3% accumulated over a period of what, 10 years? 
> Isn't that "extremely rare"? But people do not look at the 
> resolved PR counts, just the count of unresolved ones, and 
> perceive it as a big problem.

It is a problem, reducing it to a percentage doesn't do it 
justice. Let's say you are in a house and in that house there are 
50 zombies and those are the only zombies that exist on Earth. 
Does it really matter if that's only 0.0000006718624% of the 
population? No, you are still going to have to fight through 50 
zombies to get out of the house.

Clearing 140 pull requests is no small task, especially for how 
few people there are. That's time and effort that is going to 
have to be redirected from other tasks. Not only that, but 
because some of these pull requests are years old, it's going to 
take even longer for them to be fixed up and brought up to date.

Percentages have their place, this isn't the place for it right 
now.