[dmd-internals] 5th Biweekly Sprint Planning​

[Vladimir Panteleev via dmd-internals]

On Wednesday, 9 September 2015 at 19:20:47 UTC, Martin Nowak 
wrote:
>> I left some comments on PRs that caused changes on 
>> http://digger.k3.1azy.net/trend/ , maybe I should file issues 
>> for those. It seems like 90% of the time I mention something 
>> actionable in a merged PR, it gets ignored.
>
> As you can see we're pretty busy already and github is a 
> horrible
> communication path (news/notification driven, spammy...).

It was an observation, not a complaint.

> Also you have to prioritize issues, it's really not that 
> important when
> the hello world size wiggles by a few kB.

Issues that are not important enough to fix can be closed as 
WONTFIX, as long as someone in the position to make that decision 
has a look at it. I really don't think this is a problem.

> Your Digger findings are really helpful, but it's necessary 
> that we
> prioritize bugs right away or the important ones drown in 
> Bugzilla.
> And this particularly does not mean to mark every other bug as
> regression,

That's just cold. So do you want me to stop checking if filed 
bugs are regressions? That doesn't seem logical to me.

Many people seem to not realize that the bugs they run into are 
actually regressions and their code worked fine in older versions 
of D, but I do not think that these are less important to fix. A 
regression is a regression, no matter how we discover it - not 
all people report bugs they run into, and if we ignore some 
regressions, they might affect other users.

> b/c that's the only working communication channel we have
> for high priority stuff.

Bugzilla has a priority field, but it doesn't seem to be used 
much.