code cleanup in druntime and phobos

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On Saturday, 30 August 2014 at 14:41:08 UTC, monarch_dodra wrote:
> So it's "welcome help", but there's still the actual work that 
> needs to be done by someone else: Not only the pull, but the 
> review, sticking with the review, etc...

Sure.

> I can also appreciate that filing a bug is work in itself. 
> Doing that is already a step most people don't take. We just 
> need to meet halfway, and not bitch about it: Both sides have 
> or will provide work, and need to realize that about the other.

I think is better to view it as a stair case. You don't want the 
first step to be steep. By showing gratitude and educating 
potential contributors on the standard procedure perhaps more 
people walk the steps.

Making the first contributions as an attachment to a bug report 
seems like lowering the threshold for contribution. If you don't 
have full confidence in the patch, and think it might be 
slaughtered, then it probably is perceived as less "humiliating" 
to do that then to follow the formal procedure. If it goes 
through, then maybe it will encourage more formal participation 
in the next round.

Contributing through github, if you have no interest/knowledge 
about it, sounds like a major commitment at the first step.

Requiring initial contributors to figuring out a system they have 
no interest in makes the staircase too steep.