Handling constructive criticism

[Derek Parnell]

On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 11:08:05 -0700, Walter Bright wrote:

> I can understand your frustration with this. The basic problem is I 
> could easily spend 100% of my time just on this newsgroup responding to 
> it all. That leaves no time at all for preparing action plans let alone 
> trying to implement anything.

... I can see a bottleneck ...

> Important issues come up here *every single day*.
> 
> The scrolling issue is a real one, too. Things tend to scroll up and 
> away. The way to have them not get lost is:
> 
> 1) Enhancement requests should go into bugzilla with perhaps a link to 
> the corresponding archives page
> 
> 2) Other issues should go into the D wiki

What purpose would that really serve? You still have to spend time
assessing, deciding, evaluating, analysing, exporing, prototyping, ...
which all happens at a lot slower pace than new items arrive at.  

The current development model is no longer the best one for a better D.

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Derek Parnell
Melbourne, Australia
skype: derek.j.parnell