On Monday, 16 July 2012 at 01:06:16 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote:
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.
+1
I think that model proposed by deadalnix would drastically
increase productivity of D development cycle and would cover
needs of those who like to feel "stable" with their software.
Lets learn from bigger, successful projects :)
