DMD backend quality (Was: Re: DIP 1031--Deprecate Brace-Style Struct Initializers--Community Review Round 1 Discussion)

[Basile B.]

On Monday, 17 February 2020 at 18:45:25 UTC, jxel wrote:
> On Monday, 17 February 2020 at 05:11:14 UTC, Walter Bright 
> wrote:
>> On 2/16/2020 7:02 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
>>> (my personal experience btw is that bugzilla is where issues 
>>> go to be ignored, lost, or forgotten for years.)
>>
>> Anyone can submit PRs to fix bugzilla issues, including you.
>
> That doesn't mean they will get merged. There's lots of PR open 
> that have been open for years without any sort of feedback. Why 
> would anybody waste their free time to simply have their work 
> ignored?

This is not true. If a lot of PR are opened it's not because they 
are ignored. There are plenty of valid reasons and none matches 
to what your reductive POV.

- additional changes are requested but the author does not make 
these changes ;
- the changes cannot be merged because they need to be rebased ;
- the changes cannot be merged until other another PR get merged 
(label BLOCKED) ;
- the changes cannot be merged because they doesn't pass the test 
suite ;
- the changes are not accepted, they don't follow the language 
direction ;
- the PR is a draft or a WIP, so it get a bit ignored because the 
author ask for it ;
- the changes are too big, hard to understand ;
- the author doesn't care anymore ;
- the changes were not approved explicitly but the author doesn't 
close the PR ;
etc.

see 
https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aopen+sort%3Acomments-asc

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