On Monday, 8 September 2014 at 16:02:35 UTC, Joakim wrote:
On Monday, 8 September 2014 at 15:09:27 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
Bullshit. Any kind of forking wastes most valuable resource
open source world can possibly have - developer attention. In
limited form it is compensated by ecnouraged competition and
breaking possible stagantion. When it becomes casual it is a
single biggest killer of all open source projects.
Yet it is part of the freedom of open source, as Ola and ketmar
have pointed out. In any case, trading syntax patches with
each other and experimenting with different dialects, which is
all they've said they're doing so far, is far from a full fork.
I see no reason for you to come down so hard on such
experimentation.
Because original post had no learning context at all. I would
gladly support initiative to provide more example-based tutorials
for DMD contribution. Or any call for feedback based on existing
patches. But it has nothing like that, instead focusing on "here
is what I like to change in D so I keep local patches it" side of
things. And this is really bad.
Nothing is perfect and freedoms of open source come with their
own drawbacks. I still find the benefits worth it but that
doesn't mean that does mean that drawbacks are to be liked.
Sometimes social aspect can be used as a counter-measure of
technical flaw.
