Generality creep

[Rubn]

On Sunday, 31 March 2019 at 15:28:55 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> There's this subtle Romanian proverb translated loosely as 
> "it's mighty difficult helping who doesn't want to be helped". 
> (I first heard it thirty years ago in the military and thought 
> it's kind of silly.)

Look at this comment as someone pointed out before:

https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/8557#pullrequestreview-149952733

Do you think after reading this someone is going to be more 
inclined to work on a pull request or less inclined? You 
basically said the entire pull request was useless and that any 
other pull requests like it should not happen. This does not 
promote or nurture discussion that leads to understanding, this 
simply terminates it.

Not sure which is worse between Walter not saying anything and 
leaving pull requests open for years without any additional 
comment. Or your comments that you think are "help".

I made a pull request to implement a feature I didn't think was 
that big of a change. Walter left a response that the change 
needed a DIP. Then some years later the feature gets added 
without a DIP. Walter never replied to my comments requesting for 
clarification. Scheisse like that is why people don't feel like 
contributing.