Vision document for H2 2016

[Carl Vogel via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Thursday, 7 July 2016 at 19:56:29 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> On 07/07/2016 03:55 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> https://wiki.dlang.org/Vision/2016H2 -- Andrei
>
> Please provide feedback. We'll make a couple more passes before 
> this is complete. Thanks! -- Andrei

This list is full of good and worthy stuff, but is very long. 
Most of this won't be done in 2H16, so calling these "2H16 
priorities" is misleading, and doesn't give a good impression. 
For someone who really know where the language is headed, there's 
no sense of what will really be done in the next six months, what 
is in progress and might be done, and what stuff is just wishful 
thinking. The fact that so much is just copied over from last 
half says it all.

Some of these, especially the marketing, are evergreen tasks. 
("Promote books and articles"). If there's something concrete you 
have in mind for 2H16 say it, otherwise, it belongs somewhere 
else.

This is a really good long-term vision list, and it might be 
better labeled that, with different items slated for expected 
realization (2H16, 1H17, "Who knows?"), etc. (Links to associated 
bug reports would be useful too, so we know what's being worked 
on.)

In general, I feel like a list like this should actually be 
achievable. There's a silly, but still useful, business thing 
called "S.M.A.R.T." goals: Specific, Measurable, Attainable, 
Realistic, and Timely. This ain't that.