Proposal : aggregated dlang git repository

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On Tuesday, 10 February 2015 at 17:19:16 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> leadership skills, but said leadership tends to work best when 
> they
> inspire people to follow them, rather than laying down the law 
> and
> saying you must work on X, Y, Z, otherwise you're not helping 
> The Cause.

This really depends. Human beings are oriented towards "gift 
exchange", so if you have good social glue between participants 
and they do things for each other on a personal level they will 
feel some kind of debt and want to return the "gift". Different 
social groups have different dynamics and cohesion.

But when the project becomes big and it is difficult to perceive 
changes that are significant I suppose many will feel that 
contributions won't matter, because the context is too large. The 
website was small enough and contributions are visible... so 
people chimed in.

D/phobos is experiencing constant increasing breadth, but if 
cutting down the scope is not possible to get backing for you can 
break it down into smaller units. Units that can be complete and 
polished in reasonable time.

People need closure/catharsis with a reasonable pace...

> The successful projects also tend to be those where 
> contributions of any
> kind are welcomed, no matter how trivial they may seem to be

Yes, but I don't think it would hurt to map out what is needed 
and how to go about it. I has to be broken down to a measurable 
level and then you need to provide designs that are approved.

Implementing a nicely architectured design that is not too big 
can be fun. Designing and implementing something that will be 
rejected is not fun... The hardest part to get approved is in the 
design.

Most successful open source projects follow a ready made 
design... E.g. reimplementing commercial role models or 
implementing standards.