I have a plan.. I really DO

[Ecstatic Coder]

> This is one of the things about open source / volunteer 
> projects that may or may not be a good thing (it can be argued 
> both ways).  Since people aren't getting paid to do grunt work, 
> if nobody steps up to the plate to fix an issue, it will either 
> just sit there forever, or it will fall upon Walter and Andrei 
> to get to it, which, given how much is already on their plate, 
> will take a very, very long time.  And people will just work on 
> whatever interests them.  Happy D users who don't find any 
> problems (for THEIR use case) won't have much motivation to 
> contribute to something that doesn't directly benefit them (or 
> they don't even use it).  Unhappy D users who *do* find a 
> problem will either step up and fix it and contribute it so 
> that the rest of the community benefits, or they will choose 
> not to participate, in which case nothing happens.
>
> I'm not trying to justify this situation, but having observed 
> how things work around here for the past many years, that's 
> just the way things work.  Either somebody gets ticked off 
> enough to actually do something about an issue, resulting in 
> all-round benefits, or they just do nothing, and nothing 
> happens. (Complaining in the forums doesn't count, since it has 
> been proven time and time again that this almost never leads to 
> any actual change.)  This is unlike how most commercially 
> driven projects work, for obvious reasons, and for better or 
> for worse, that's what we have to deal with. (Personally I 
> think this is actually a good thing, but I'm guessing many 
> people will disagree.)
>
> So saying "wouldn't it be much more effective that the D 
> experts of this forum simply fix the open source code" 
> ultimately won't lead to much change, for better or for worse.  
> *Somebody* has to step up to do it. Expecting somebody else to 
> spend their unpaid volunteer time to work on something that may 
> not really interest them is, to say the least, unrealistic.  
> The solution, as Walter says, is to "be the change you want to 
> see".

I agree. And I must admit that from that point of view I'm indeed 
part of the problem...