Walter's annoying habits

[Bruno Medeiros]

Stewart Gordon wrote:
> It's time to make a list of Walter's habits that continually annoy us. 
> Here are some of my peeves, to start it off:
> 
> 

The fact that some of Walter's habits are annoying is of no relevance. 
If you want to criticize Walter (and despite Walter's great job I *do 
think* there is room for criticizing), it should be done under the 
perspective of what is best for D. The fact that it annoys (and how much 
it annoys) is just an offtopic side-effect.

And for the record, I disagree with most of the faulty habits points you 
bring forward below. I'm not interested enough to discuss why.

> 1. Dodging issues, including important ones such as
> 
> http://www.digitalmars.com/webnews/newsgroups.php?art_group=digitalmars.D.bugs&article_id=9360 
> 
> http://www.digitalmars.com/webnews/newsgroups.php?art_group=digitalmars.D&article_id=41553 
> 
> 
> (Why is webnews showing only two messages from this in the thread view, 
> even when viewing the message?)
> 
> 2. Denying responsibility for his
> own slip-ups.  For example, marking what's left of
> 
> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=327
> 
> INVALID despite this being due to an obvious mistake he made while 
> updating the spec, as well as violating the design of D.  No doubt there 
> are other instances, but I can't seem to think of them at the moment.
> 
> 
> 3. Otherwise hitting the INVALID 'button' without properly analysing 
> things, meaning that it becomes necessary to reopen.
> 
> 
> 4. Implementing his own ideas but keeping even constructive criticism - 
> let alone implementation - of other people's ideas to a minimum.
> 
> 
> 5. Implementing new features when he should be concentrating on getting 
> things working properly.
> 
> 
> 6. Postponing indefinitely, for no apparent reason, folding in fixes 
> people have gone to all the trouble to write.
> 
> 
> 7. Not using a spellchecker.
> 
> 
> 8. Apparently never learning from the spelling corrections we keep 
> giving him.
> 
> (Please forgive me if you _have_ since heeded the advice in
> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=631
> )
> 
> 
> More contributions to this list would be more than welcome!
> 
> Stewart.


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Bruno Medeiros - MSc in CS/E student
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