Walter Bright Wrote:
> The people currently who can commit changes are:
> 
> Walter Bright
> Brad Roberts
> Andrei Alexandrescu
> Sean Kelley
> Janice Caron
> Don Clugston
> 
> Anyone else can propose changes by submitting the patches to bugzilla. However, the bar is pretty high for that; submissions must contain the following:
> 
> 1) unittests that prove it works
> 2) ddoc style documentation (for new functionality)
> 3) documentation must include sample of use (for new functionality)
> 
> If the patches don't include these, please still submit them, but they'll tend to get lower priority because someone else has to complete them. So, generally, the more thorough the patch is, the speedier it will be to get it in.
> 
> Also, patches which require a license that is different from the one in the module being patched cannot be accepted.

I hope that issues containing incomplete patches or patches with a bad license get a comment added to them explaining that they're being made lower priority or are rejected outright.  That helps achieve two things: 1. People won't complain as hard about incomplete patches not getting accepted in a timely manner.  2. Those who are really interested in a particular patch will complete it in order to speed up the acceptance process.

Jason House wrote:
> I hope that issues containing incomplete patches or patches with a bad license get a comment added to them explaining that they're being made lower priority or are rejected outright.  That helps achieve two things: 1. People won't complain as hard about incomplete patches not getting accepted in a timely manner.  2. Those who are really interested in a particular patch will complete it in order to speed up the acceptance process.

Oh yes, please. I don't have any problem at all with patches I submit being rejected for briefly explained reasons.

It's the silently ignoring part that annoys me. :)


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