Should D1 only bugs be closed?

[David Nadlinger]

On Saturday, 9 February 2013 at 18:04:29 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
> On Sat, 2013-02-09 at 18:30 +0100, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
>> Walter is still working on D1, as shown:
>> 
>> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/commits/dmd-1.x
>> 
>> We're all baffled as to why he's still wasting time on D1, 
>> when it was
>> agreed we'd stop working on it after December 31st.
>
> This sort of thing makes it very hard for those of is trying to 
> market
> D. There is little enough resource developing D as it is and to 
> have
> significant amount of it working on dead code, seriously 
> undermines the
> message.

The worst part is that there wasn't even an official announcement 
regarding the status of D1. The way the situation has been 
handled so far could be straight out of a »What not to do in 
project management« handbook.

David