Proposal : aggregated dlang git repository

[H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d]

On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 12:00:53PM +0000, ketmar via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Mon, 09 Feb 2015 22:22:49 -0800, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
[...]
> > Yet we do have matters that are important and urgent. We want to
> > improve Phobos' take on memory allocation. Yet not one soul is
> > working on RefCounted. Few know even what needs to be done of it.
> > Why? Why are so many of us dedicating so much energy to tweaking
> > what already works, instead of tackling real problems? Problems that
> > e.g. - pardon my being pedantic - are in the vision document?
> 
> maybe 'cause people willing to fix the things that annoys them, not
> the things someone says they should fix? those "small changes" annoys
> people enough to do something, and they are relatively easy. not
> everybody has enough time and/or motivation to work on big changes
> (especially if they don't even use that things often enough).
[...]

Yeah, welcome to the open source community. People work on what they
*want* to work on, not what somebody else tells them they should work
on.  :-)

The corollary is, if you want people to work on X, you should make X
attractive enough that people *want* to work on it. Inspiration tends to
work a lot better than command in a volunteer project.


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People say I'm indecisive, but I'm not sure about that. -- YHL, CONLANG