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digitalmars.D.learn - Perhaps I'm just a bit pushie

reply "Danny Arends" <Danny.Arends gmail.com> writes:
Hey there,

I was just wondering how long it takes for a pull request to get 
merged...
I know that if its very controversial it can take weeks, but well 
I've submitted a minor patch to change some errors into 
exceptions (and add a more explanatory error msg)...

https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/1659

I know the alloca calls in there are troublesome but the behavior 
doesn't change (except for the fact that now on alloca failure, a 
better error is thrown)

See: https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/1659

Perhaps I'm just pushie, but well its my first pull request and 
would love to see my web server return some 'meaningful 
exception' from the standard library.

No offense, you're all doing a great job with D

Gr,
Danny Arends
http://www.dannyarends.nl/
Oct 27 2013
parent Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg gmx.com> writes:
On Sunday, October 27, 2013 20:17:48 Danny Arends wrote:
 Hey there,
 
 I was just wondering how long it takes for a pull request to get
 merged...
 I know that if its very controversial it can take weeks, but well
 I've submitted a minor patch to change some errors into
 exceptions (and add a more explanatory error msg)...
 
 https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/1659
 
 I know the alloca calls in there are troublesome but the behavior
 doesn't change (except for the fact that now on alloca failure, a
 better error is thrown)
 
 See: https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/1659
 
 Perhaps I'm just pushie, but well its my first pull request and
 would love to see my web server return some 'meaningful
 exception' from the standard library.
 
 No offense, you're all doing a great job with D
It varies considerably how long it takes for things to get merged. Sometimes it's fairly quick, but often it takes a while. The reasons for it vary, but it generally revolves around the fact that everyone working on D is a volunteer and manpower or availability can become a problem (though if something is controversial, that certainly doesn't help). The fact that pull requests aren't generally merged faster is on of the things that really worries Andrei and that he's brought up several times. We'd like to do better. - Jonathan M Davis
Oct 27 2013