On 06/17/2015 08:35 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: > The role of Release Manager and "This Week In D" are the two ones > somewhat special in the community: they're closest to an actual "job", > in the sense that regularity and professionalism are crucial. You need > to "show up" and do it. If "This Week in D" is not there on Sunday > evening, it's not a weekly. If we have no release manager and no > contingency plan, we can't release. In the future we'll have folks > depending on this and planning ahead for it. > > You wouldn't just not go to work for two weeks and then show up at your > desk as if nothing happened. This kind of stuff needs some level of > planning, barring exceptional events. For example, Adam could tell his > readership "I'll be on vacation next week, so no issue on August 9". > Which is totally fine.
Well, I've been on vacation and prolonged that spontaneously for another week or so. > I'm very happy Martin is doing well but I am disappointed about this > unprofessional behavior. In fact I could only assume the worst because > he seemed one of the most serious people I've dealt with, so this came > as quite a major breakage of trust. I tried to convince people for 2 years to plan development (remember http://wiki.dlang.org/Agenda) and never got anyone to cooperate. It's very difficult to plan a release when people develop random stuff on master, hopefully this will improve with the more regular releases. -Martin
