D : Not for me anymore

[Georg Wrede]

Derek Parnell wrote:
> Walter Bright wrote:
>> Derek Parnell wrote:
>>> Walter Bright wrote:
>>>
>>>>I'm happy to merge things in, but am reluctant to do so without 
>>>>reviewing the diffs line by line.
>>>
>>>Actually, when I wrote "take Phobos", I really meant "take Phobos". You
>>>would no longer have *the* sole controlling vote on what goes in or goes
>>>out of phobos, nor would you have sole control over when new libraries were
>>>released for general consumptuion.
>>
>>Maybe after 1.0. I'm pretty reluctant to do so earlier. 
> 
> That's what I thought. I didn't really think that you meant what you said
> earlier ...
>
>>> Are you saying that, for example, you would have no problems with
>>> Phobos being taken from DigitalMars and moved to DSource so that
>>> everyone who needed to could get to submit changes to the library
>>> that would actually be applied.
>>
>> The license for the Phobos source code certainly allows that, and
>> that's part of the point of having the license be that way. So no,
>> I have no problem with that.
> 
>>That said, it still doesn't impede anyone else from working on Phobos.
> 
> What impedes me is you. The few times I have submitted a Phobos change to
> you, you have dismissed them as not worthy of the effort.

It's not like anyone has a *right* to get his code accepted.

One might submit reams of code, or one might be a Distinguished Member 
of the community, but every line of the code still has to earn its 
merits by itself!

The reasons of rejection may not be obvious to the submitter, but we 
have no reason to suspect Walter's motivation or impartiality! Or judgment.

And certainly one should not get personal about it.

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As should be clear by now, it's free for anyone to set up Another Phobos 
right now. We might even have several different on separate servers. If 
any of these then turn up with worthy code, it could be copied to the 
others (or to the Official Phobos, if Walter so chooses).

And even before 1.0, if then somebody fancies one of the Independent 
Phoboses better than the original, then it's free to use that instead. 
(Then of course one would assume all responsibility for 
incompatibilities with 3rd party libraries or other code that may arise 
from the chosen Phobos possibly being "too fancy". But that's life.)