Assault & battery on pull requests

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 3/16/14, 3:20 PM, Martin Nowak wrote:
> On 03/16/2014 10:46 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> I have accumulated a bunch of insight in short term memory, among which
>> (1) people are happy to work on a variety of things if given just a
>> little vision and guidance; (2) it is more difficult yet more productive
>> in the long run to shepherd a weak submission with good parts to
>> completion, than to dismiss it for its defects; (3) being able to drain
>> the request pipeline effectively is key to D's success.
>
> I came to the same conclusion, we're currently loosing to many useful work.

It's amazing how this puts discussions in perspective. There's all this 
hand wringing about what to do to help D move forward, yet this obvious 
lever has been in front of us all along.

Andrei