On Sun, 15 Jul 2012 18:01:41 -0700, Andrei Alexandrescu
<[email protected]> wrote:
On 7/15/12 7:15 PM, Patrick Stewart wrote:
We are coming back to dsource& Tango graveyard story. D had equally
capable and large community to. Its resources got wasted. People
left. Huge amount of work just wasted for nothing.
Actually a couple of weeks ago I was curious and collected a few
statistics about the frequency of posts, number of posters, and such.
The numbers are not yet in shape to be published, but from what I
gathered so far there was no visible glitch around the D1/D2 divergence.
There's a strong increase since 2011, but I couldn't yet gather an
exponential trend.
On the other hand,
Python has one of the largest *operational* standard library and tons
of 3rd party ones. Why? Because with stable language, all those
libraries stayed in the game.
Agreed, we have much to learn from Python and other successful languages.
I assume those procedures and protocols materialized together with
strong growth of the community, and may be difficult to transplant to
our team. Right now my main focus as an organizer is to make sure
people's cycles are spent on productive, high-impact work. Right now
Walter is working on Win64, which is of very high impact. A change of
procedure right now would simply mean time taken away from that task.
Finally, since you are interested in effecting durable positive change
in D's development, I'll venture that perhaps you're not going the best
way about it. Your posts attempt almost with no exception to inflame,
and there's no contribution I know of in your name. That all reduces the
credibility of your points, however merit there may be in them.
Thanks,
Andrei
I would like to state that I am all for waiting onr Win64; it's a huge
project and trying to do this change in the middle of it would be the
height of stupidity. However, directly after Win64 goes live I move that
we make the dual branch model the default going forward as it solves too
many long-standing community complaints to reasonably dismiss.
--
Adam Wilson
IRC: LightBender
Project Coordinator
The Horizon Project
http://www.thehorizonproject.org/
