code cleanup in druntime and phobos

[Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d]

On 1 September 2014 17:11, Daniel Murphy via Digitalmars-d
<digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
> "Walter Bright"  wrote in message news:ltvuu1$imf$1 at digitalmars.com...
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>> d. making me create an account in order to submit the report
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> Hmm, this is actually an argument in favour of migrating our issue tracking
> to github, as people are more likely to have an account there.
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>> The end result of all this is I very rarely submit bug reports anymore. If
>> the maker makes it hard for me to submit one, I infer they don't want to
>> hear about bug reports, so why bother?
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>> (I also cannot recall any vendor actually fixing a bug I reported, EVER,
>> in 30 years.)
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> This is my experience too, unless you count Digital Mars =)
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>> Bottom line is, if someone wants to submit a patch via bugzilla, or even
>> email, we should be accommodating, or at least not blow him off. I've often
>> added Bugzilla issues for things I've received via email.
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> Generally, patches in bugzilla just rot.  Letting potential contributors
> think their work won't be wasted if they submit it to bugzilla would most
> likely lead to disappointment.
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> Copy-pasting a bug report into bugzilla is luckily a much less involved
> process than testing, presenting, updating and arguing for a pull request.


People have sent patches / raised bugs directly to me in the past.
Now *that* is rot.  I always forward them onto bugzilla because at
least then it's in a place where:

1) More than one person can read it, and potentially act upon it.
2) Much better todo list than searching through thousands upon
thousands of emails. :)