On 12/24/2023 11:13 AM, Dibyendu Majumdar wrote:
> Part of this may be the exact opposite of what people claimed in the other thread; you have accepted contributions from people when they made sense; it requires good taste and great insight to see what contributions matter.

Proposals may fail for all kinds of reasons, but it's inevitable that the person behind every proposal feels it is best for D, and will be disappointed if it doesn't make it. I've proposed language improvements to other languages, and have had 100% of them rejected, and so know how it feels.

(Some of my proposals have reappeared submitted by others, and made it into the language!)

I know that it can appear as an unfair and unreasonable process. All I can say is we do the best we can with it.

On Tuesday, 26 December 2023 at 18:03:12 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> Proposals may fail for all kinds of reasons, but it's inevitable that the person behind every proposal feels it is best for D, and will be disappointed if it doesn't make it. I've proposed language improvements to other languages, and have had 100% of them rejected, and so know how it feels.
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> (Some of my proposals have reappeared submitted by others, and made it into the language!)
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> I know that it can appear as an unfair and unreasonable process. All I can say is we do the best we can with it.

The main thing I hear people complain about is not that their proposals are *rejected*, but that their proposals are (or appear to be) *ignored*.

When you put a bunch of work into a DIP or a PR, and then get "left on read" for weeks or months, it can feel like a slap in the face--like the project maintainers are saying, "we have so little respect for your work that it's not even worth our time to look at it." It can be a very discouraging experience.

It is inevitable that not all contributions can be accepted, but ideally, even the contributors whose work is ultimately rejected should come away from the process feeling as though they have been treated with respect.