Four new committers on github: AndrejMitrovic, ibuclaw, klickverbot, and rainers

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

Hello everyone,


I'm happy to announce we have four new committers to our project on 
github: AndrejMitrovic, ibuclaw, klickverbot, and rainers.

Lots of cool things are happening nowadays in D, what with DConf gearing 
up, the rise of private and corporate use, and the swelling of 
contributions. Yet we should see those as mere stepping stones toward 
much bigger destinations.

Short term, we need to improve process to the point where we can 
successfully "drain" contributions from the community, and scale up 
organizationally so we could absorb 10x and 100x more. There are 158 
pull requests for all components combined (http://goo.gl/0Ar7b), most or 
all written by highly talented and motivated people. It is key to 
improve our ability to absorb these contributions and attract more of such.

That's in the short term. On a longer horizon, we are now at a point 
where many programmers have heard of D, and fortunately past the entire 
"what's the deal with tango and phobos" morass. The strategic item to 
work on now is to improve the quality of the language definition and the 
implementation of the reference front-end. The word on the street is 
that D is okay for the straight stuff, but fuzzy at the corners if you 
get into the esoteric. And we won't make it big for being as good as the 
"straight stuff" as anyone else (though that's a precondition), but by 
consistently showing that the differential features of D are delivering 
big time.

So quality is the keyword to live by. And I think by adding four 
high-octane committers to the team we're taking a step in the right 
direction. Please join me in congratulating them!


Thanks,

Andrei