Do people from DLF look at DUB PRs?

Richard (Rikki) Andrew Cattermole richard at cattermole.co.nz
Tue Nov 3 21:43:38 UTC 2026


On 04/11/2026 10:22 AM, Dejan Lekic wrote:
> On Tuesday, 3 November 2026 at 20:16:55 UTC, Richard (Rikki) Andrew 
> Cattermole wrote:
>> Dub has never been a DLF owned project.
>>
>> For all intents and purposes its still owned by Sonke.
>>
>> There is nothing to discuss.
> 
> I assumed everything under `dlang` is managed by DLF. Thanks for 
> clearing this up.
> 
> Things are even worse than I thought. You even package `dub` in dmd and 
> LDC, yet you tell me it is not project managed by you guys. We have 
> phrase in Serbian that fits perfectly here - "ko je ovde lud?" - that I 
> will not even try to translate as it is very hard. The best translation 
> (read one that fits) is perhaps "am I missing something?"
> 
> Consider this conversation over. I got the information I needed. Thanks. 
> My conclusion: D project is a mess that is impossible to repair and 
> those smart people who left this community were far smarter than me. My 
> problem is that I am knee deep in D - all my projects that I use daily, 
> 24/7 are D projects and to move to something else will take some time, 
> but I will get there...

Its not quite that bad.

We do manage the dub-registry for instance.

It's just dub itself has a code owner that hasn't quite updated to being 
in upstream and nobody has wanted to force it.



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