Congratulations to the D Team!

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2012-07-09 08:37, Adam Wilson wrote:
> Ladies and Gentlemen,
>
> Today is a day to celebrate! By the time many of you read this you will
> be waking up to a new day, and too a new D. As of 0530 07/09/2012 UTC
> the programmers and testers of the D Development Team have merged an
> unprecedented 37 pull requests; all in a single day.
>
> A breakdown of the merges by project:
> DMD: 5 (05% of open pull requests)
> DRuntime: 17 (55% of open pull requests)
> Phobos: 14 (56% of open pull requests)
> DPL.org: 4 (50% of open pull requests)
>
> First I want to mention two people who really helped make this day happen.
> Jonathan M. Davis: For creating, testing, and submitting a patch that he
> was opposed to in std.datetime. This was a gentlemanly thing to do, and
> we applaud you for it.
> Alex Ronne Peterson: For his heroic efforts in fixing any errors in the
> merges as they arose and particularly for his efforts in fixing
> const-related errors.
>
> Next I would like to draw your attention to a couple of major
> improvements to D that were made today:
> Object is now const-correct throughout D. This has been a dream for many
> of you. Today it is a reality.
> Aliases for the 'dur' template. For example, you can now call
> 3.minutes() and receive a Duration.
>
> Also merged where fixes for the following issues:
> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=7965
> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=8274
> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=7375
> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4809
> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=5547
> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1824
> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=5011
> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=8323
>
> I want to extend congratulations to the D Team and especially the
> members that were involved in today's pull request audit and merge.
> Because of you D is a better tool today than it has ever been.
>
> I also hope that these weekly Sunday Pull Audits will continue in the
> future as they will help propel D forward to new heights of reliability
> and usability. What the Team has accomplished is truly extraordinary,
> but we have a long way to go.
>
> As a final note. If you are using Git-HEAD builds of D for your
> development work, I strongly suggest that you update DMD, DRuntime, and
> Phobos at the same time. The Object-const correct changes affected all
> three of those projects and attempting to build any one of them without
> applying the changes to each of them will result in build failures. I
> also strongly suggest that those intrepid D users who are using Git-HEAD
> for their regular D work upgrade and report any bugs you find with the
> new code. With your help, 2.060 will be the best release of D yet!
>
> Again, thank you and congratulations to the D Team!

Yeah, I wonder what the h*ll had happened when I woke up and had around 
50 new email messages. But it was a couple of people going crazy with 
merging pull requests.

Great work :)

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg