phobo's std.file is completely broke!

[Vladimir Panteleev]

On Saturday, 15 September 2018 at 13:54:45 UTC, tide wrote:
> I feel people need to stop saying this. It feels like people 
> are just being told to say this if there is a bug. There is a 
> larger issue, Bugzilla doesn't and isn't working. Someone will 
> probably throw up some stats about how many bugs are filed and 
> how many are resolved. Those exist because someone working on 
> Dlang comes across a bug that affects them, creates a patch for 
> it first, then goes and creates a bugzilla entry and marks it 
> resolved. Issues are rarely resolved by anyone other than the 
> person that created the bug report to begin with. Or issues 
> created by a team member is resolved by another team member.

- A reproducible test case removes any room for miscommunication, 
ensures that a fix will fix the problem the submitter is having, 
and saves time for the developer working on fixing the bug.

- Not filing a bug will essentially guarantee that it's not fixed.

- Sometimes, people do look at random bugs and fix them. 
Regressions especially are tracked closely.

- Having an issue provides a central place to discuss the bug and 
link to it.

I have some experience working with and curating D's Bugzilla 
(see e.g. https://github.com/CyberShadow/DBugTests), so I think 
the above are authoritatively true.