On Monday, 29 August 2016 at 01:09:47 UTC, Illuminati wrote:
So, I'd rather hear something "Yes, great idea... we will work
on it when we get a chance" as it lets me know that the proper
attitudes are in effect that will help D go somewhere. If I
here "No, that's too hard... too much work. Not interested",
etc. It lets me know that the fight is an uphill battle and it
makes me not want to be part of that negative approach. Make
sense?
I think what Dicebot was saying is that according to his estimate
the cost/benefit ratio for this idea is too low for him to
volunteer for it.
For example, I would be willing to contribute if I
thought/believed my contributions were going to be worthwhile.
I am not alone in this, everyone is this way.
No one ever said that contributions aren't welcome ;-)
I think your question was understood as "Hey guys, please do
this!", not as "Hey I would like to have this, how can I help?"
As said before I think that the discussion on the pull request or
the thread in the NG are quite okay for the moment (for
comparison afaik: Rust uses explicitly the pull request to
discuss their RFCs, whereas Python uses solely a mailing list).
My personal take on that: it's great if you have time to
contribute, but there are a lot more important things to do & if
you want to improve the DIP process, the best thing to do is to
write a DIP yourself.
There are plenty of draft DIPs at [1] that just wait for someone
like you to polish them and make a superb DIP submission out of
them!
[1] https://wiki.dlang.org/DIPs
