std.parallelism is accepted into Phobos

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 4/27/11 1:13 AM, Russel Winder wrote:
>> What also matters is that stuff that stays is stuff that gets done. You
>> seem to have a good amount of expertise, but at the same time choose to
>> firmly plant your figurative self in the proverbial armchair. If you
>> know how to do it, do it, don't attempt to beat others into doing it.
>
> I think it a bit overly-aggressive to use phrases such as "choose to
> firmly plant your figurative self in the proverbial armchair" and  "beat
> others into doing it".
>
> For people who have full-time jobs and therefore secure income who use
> some of their work time or spare time to work on projects such as D,
> there is the safety of having secure income.  For those of us who have
> no full-time job it is a matter of all time spent on things like D is
> time not spent earning money.  Firing off some emails is quick and apart
> from a few rants, I think most of my emails are constructive.  It is
> therefore a serious barrier to be told I am a back seat driver and to
> "do something" don't "say something".
>
> With people such as Spacen Jasset tentatively volunteering to contribute
> to some work due to this exchange, to start getting censorious of my
> efforts to contribute and create an atmosphere of doing something seems
> somewhat counter-productive, certainly not community building.

I agree. If posting to the newsgroup is significantly faster for you 
than actually spinning some code, then by all means please do post. I 
find that posting takes me significant amounts of time.


Thanks,

Andrei