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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