521 days, 22 hours, 7 minutes and 52 seconds...

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 1/26/15 10:17 AM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 10:09:45AM -0800, Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> ...is what took to get std.experimental.logger in Phobos.
>>
>> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/1500
>>
>> A time to celebrate! Many thanks to Robert who carried it through a
>> long gestation, Dicebot for managing the review process, and everybody
>> who provided feedback, especially Martin Nowak for his ideas.
> [...]
>
> Certainly, this deserves celebration!
>
> But OTOH, if *this* is what it takes to contribute a new module to
> Phobos, then it's no wonder we have trouble finding contributors...
> Most would give up before they even try. I think there's an imbalance
> here between the quality of existing Phobos modules vs. the quality
> expected of future Phobos modules. Whatever happened to incremental
> refinement??  Do we really expect flawless perfection before merging to,
> of all places, std.*experimental*?

For a good while there was no std.experimental. Its introduction was 
partially motivated by the stalemate of this contribution. -- Andrei