Breaking D2 language/spec changes with D1 being discontinued in a month

[Rob T]

On Thursday, 29 November 2012 at 22:12:08 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
wrote:
> The benevolent dictator model is quite common in open source 
> software
> development. There needs to be a team to support that if you 
> want to really be
> a team project rather than one person's pet project, and it's 
> not like the
> dictator decides everything, but having one person with the 
> final say can be
> very beneficial.

Fair enough, I can accept that, and will even agree with it.

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benevolent_Dictator_For_Life
>
> But as it stands, there's plenty of decision making that goes 
> on outside of
> Walter with regards to Phobos. In fact, he's not involved with 
> Phobos much at
> all at this point. It's really just the language and the 
> compiler over which
> Walter exercises that level of control.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

In my view, the biggest problem that I see is how the project 
development is structured, so if anything is to change for the 
better in a significant way, it will be with changing the 
development process, and that should have no effect on Walter's 
status as a benevolent dictator (something which I have no reason 
at all to question), but it should create a sense of stability 
and a much smoother release process for everyone concerned.

Seriously, how many years has the D community been operating in 
this way, 10 or more?

There's not a heck of a lot here to debate other than to simply 
start the process of switching over to a more stable and 
efficient development process.


--rt