On Wed, 2017-12-27 at 19:11 +0000, Laeeth Isharc via Digitalmars-d wrote: […] > People also continue to think and write as if the D Foundation > has this inexhaustible fund of resources (pecuniary and people) > that it can command to work on whatever Andrei and Walter think > best.
But on the other hand there is little or no presence of The D Foundation in online places I frequent. The D Foundation does need to have a plan for becoming a thing that people would put resource into. > It's open source! It doesn't work like that. > > If you want people to work on something, write a proof of concept > and talk about it. Talking to the aether about what people ought > to be doing will be less effective than finding one guy who > agrees with you and working on the project together. And if not > working on it yourself, then organising a fund and making an > initial contribution towards a prize for someone who will. > > And if one isn't willing either to work on something oneself, or > to contribute financially towards its development, just how > likely is it you will persuade somebody else to do the work in a > community of highly intelligent, spirited, and independent-minded > people? This bears repeating, so I have done by resending. The ASF has the idea of a project being a "do-ocracy" Those that do have rights of credit and opinion. It a bit more complicated than that since it doesn't stop people from having opinions as long as they are constructive rather than rhetorical. However, it is a nice headline. -- Russel. =========================================== Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk
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