On Monday, 22 December 2014 at 08:22:35 UTC, Daniel Murphy wrote:
"Ola Fosheim Grøstad" " wrote in message
news:aimenbdjdflzgkkte...@forum.dlang.org...
Hardly, you have to be specific and make the number of issues
covered in the next release small enough to create a feeling
of being within reach in a short time span. People who don't
care about fixing current issues should join a working group
focusing on long term efforts (such as new features, syntax
changes etc).
Saying it will work doesn't make it so.
You need a core team, the core team needs to be able to cooperate
on the most important features for the greater good. Then you
have outside contributors with special interests, perhaps even
educational (like a master student) that could make great long
term contributions if you established work groups headed by
people who knew the topic well.
More importantly: it makes no business sense to invest in an open
source project that shows clear signs of being mismanaged. Create
a spec that has business value, manage the project well and
people with a commercial interest will invest. Why would I
contribute to the compiler if I see no hope of it ever reaching a
stable release that is better than the alternatives from a
commercial perspective?
