Humble request at Walter: Could you _please_ fix phobos already?

[Walter Bright]

janderson wrote:
> Maybe the community should just make a branch of Phobos 
> (Phobos.Community).  Go though all the submissions to bugzilla and add 
> them.

I'm going to do a little rant here, so please indulge me for a moment. 
Many of the submitted patches are well done, and they aren't put in 
phobos because I haven't gotten off of my lazy arse and put them in yet.

But some are of the form "I don't know how it works, here's a patch that 
might work but I haven't tried it." Those kind of patches are not helpful.

A good patch has the following attributes:

1) It's done based on a good understanding of how the module works and 
how it should work.

2) It's been tried and found to work. Saying it "seems" to work isn't 
good enough, and leaves me with the thought that the engineering of the 
patch will have to be completely redone.

3) Unit tests are included to independently verify that it does, indeed, 
work and solve the bug.

4) The -cov switch was used to verify that all lines of the patch were 
executed by the unit tests.

Do I consistently live up to this standard 100%? Nope, and shame on me 
for not. And every time I don't, I get burned.