Congratulations to the D Team!

[Adam Wilson]

On Mon, 09 Jul 2012 12:24:12 -0700, Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg at gmx.com>  
wrote:

> On Monday, July 09, 2012 10:01:25 Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> On 7/9/12 3:52 AM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>> > On Sunday, July 08, 2012 23:37:29 Adam Wilson wrote:
>> >> First I want to mention two people who really helped make this day
>> >> happen.
>> >
>> > Andrei is the one who was doing most of the work by reviewing and  
>> merging
>> > most of the pull requests which got merged.
>>
>> Giving me credit for this is like giving credit the cable for
>> electricity. I just let the great work of others flow.
>
> It's a team effort, but the processing of pull requests has been a  
> definite
> bottleneck. I'd say that for Phobos, 90+% of the time it's either you or  
> me
> who merges them, so if either of us is slow about it and/or another  
> Phobos dev
> is needed to review a particular request, then pull requests tend to  
> languish.
> It's even worse for druntime, since a lot of the time, Sean needs to get
> involved (particularly since some of us feel a bit unqualified reviewing  
> and
> merging some of the critical stuff in druntime), and he seems to be  
> very, very
> busy (though with Martin Nowak recently added as a committer for  
> druntime, the
> situation may improve). So, the fact that you took the time to review and
> merge so many pull requests had a big impact.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

When I mentioned this post on IRC he specifically requested to be left out  
of it. So I did. However, I personally feel that his willingness to get in  
there and swing his +50 Hammer of Merging did in fact have a big impact on  
the successes of yesterday.

-- 
Adam Wilson
IRC: LightBender
Project Coordinator
The Horizon Project
http://www.thehorizonproject.org/