How I Came to Write D -- by Walter Bright

Brad Roberts braddr at puremagic.com
Thu Apr 10 17:29:39 PDT 2014


On 4/10/14, 10:44 AM, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
> On 4/8/14, Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:
>> http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/22jwcu/how_i_came_to_write_d/
>
> Btw, w.r.t. #2:
>
>> W.B.: I've had to learn how to manage a project where people are all volunteers. Since I don't pay anybody anything, I can't tell anybody to do anything.
>
> As a contributor I take a different stance here. When Andrei/Walter or
> someone from the "higher ranks" asks me about working on a specific
> feature or pull I'll be ready to jump on it as soon as possible. To me
> the issue was never about finding what to work on, but prioritizing
> what's important.
>
> So I wouldn't necessarily say that requesting someone to work on
> something would look bad or be perceived as wanting that someone to do
> work for free. I think there's plenty of us here who are eager to work
> on things.
>
> I know Andrei said he already tried to ask some members of the
> community to work on some issues, to no avail. I don't know which
> issues they were though, but if I'm involved in any of them just ping
> me and I'll jump to work ASAP.

My request for bug prioritization isn't new:  regressions, blockers, and majors -- in that order. 
The number of open bugs that fall into those three severity levels is depressing.


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