Andrei Alexandrescu Wrote: > Derek Parnell wrote: > > The D-Team should be dedicating resources to ensuring that the D1 > > implementation and D1 documentation are in alignment with each other. > > By dedicating, I mean that is all that this D1-subteam of the D-Team > > work on - no D2 work at all. Any D1 fixes that need to be propagated > > to D2 should be done by the D2-subteam. Priority should be given to > > getting D1 completed. > > Well thank you General :o). > > Derek, I have all respect for you and your contributions to D. The > response below does not have the slightest intent to pick on you but to > rein in an unhelpful pattern in this group. > > I invite you to see the paragraph quoted above through a different pair > of eyes - the eyes of someone with a different vision of what should be > done for D, and also (most importantly) who believes in it strongly > enough to invest their own non-existing free time in effecting that > vision. > > I confess that this couch quarterbacking is mightily frustrating for > both Walter and myself. All the pieces are there for anyone with a > vision to make it happen. I understand you wanted to share your opinion > on what would be best for the future of D, and that's laudable in and by > itself, but such opinions have lately become a choir of whines > fulfilling a "if I want something from D, and I expect Walter to do it" > pattern. We need the exact opposite - if you care, what can *you* do to > make D better? D needs action and leadership.
Leadership, now there's an interesting concept! Maybe we should nominate a leader by popular acclaim, then let her lead. I don't think that Walter has time to be both supremo of development and D leader (pardon the pun) at the same time. In any case it's probably the case that the two roles require completely different mindsets. I remember John Haggins (Zortech), when Walter was working on one of the earliest versions of C++. They were as different as chalk and cheese. But commercially the combination worked for some time. So since D is now mostly open source, perhaps we should discuss democracy?
