Vision for the first semester of 2016

[Andrew Edwards via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Monday, 25 January 2016 at 20:44:10 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2016-01-25 14:22, Andrew Edwards wrote:
>
>> Glad to see your spirit is not easily broken. That, however, 
>> does not
>> invalidate my statement.  One would think that 10 years after 
>> being
>> dubbed the official graphics library for the language, it 
>> would be
>> simple to install DMD and DWT side by side on all DMD supported
>> platforms and the two just work well together. Especially 
>> since people
>> that advocated it claimed that by making it official, it would
>> legitimize their contributions to help improve make 
>> improvements. It is
>> not even usable on what appears to be the platform you develop 
>> on/for,
>> MAC OS X, and you are the main maintainer/contributer.
>
> The only thing that happened, as far as I know, in terms of 
> official was that Walter announced it to be the official GUI 
> and it got its own dedicated newsgroup. It's not on the web 
> site, there's been no coordinated releases, no contribution 
> from the core team, nothing. I don't see how anyone could 
> expect progress to increase at all.

My point exactly. Simply naming something official does not 
improve it's status or send contributors clamoring to assist in 
its improvement. It takes a deliberate effort and dedication of 
resources to accomplish that.