[dmd-internals] Oldest five bugs

[Jason House]

On Jan 18, 2012, at 6:34 PM, Leandro Lucarella <luca at llucax.com.ar> wrote:

> Jason House, el 18 de enero a las 17:34 me escribiste:
>> 
>> 
>> I agree with Andrei. As D fights to gain popularity, it will be
>> evaluated by a variety of somewhat arbitrary metrics by people
>> deciding if they should take the D plunge.
>> 
>> People will definitely look at how quickly bugs get closed. For a new
>> language with a recent uptick in community involvement, 6 year old
>> bugs are definitely embarrassing.
> 
> If people don't "experience" bugs they will not even look at the age of
> bugs, they will not even look at the bug tracker!


There's a big difference between hobbyist and corporations.


> How many times did you
> checked the bug from other languages?


For many open source projects, I only check once... And then never look at the bug tracker or the project ever again. First impressions are important.