Opportunities for D

[John Colvin via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 10 July 2014 at 14:54:51 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
>> E.g.
> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/1527 is 
> some
> apparently work that's just sitting there abandoned.
>
> Hm, slightly OT: is it considered widely acceptable to take 
> over such pull requests by reopening rebased one with identical 
> content? I presume Boost licensing implies so but not sure 
> everyone else expects the same.

I don't see why this would invalidate the licence:

fork the branch that contains the request, rebase to fix any 
conflicts, make any extra commits needed, open a new pull 
request. It's really no different from merging the pull and then 
fixing it afterwards.