Community and contribution [was: Re: http://wiki.dlang.org/DIP25]

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 1/1/15 10:45 AM, Joseph Rushton Wakeling via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On 29/12/14 05:13, Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> I did want to say something about this. I've given a close read to the
>> "Lost a
>> new commercial user this week" thread, through and through. It seems I've
>> identified a problem that belongs to us. ("Us" is a vacuous term
>> meaning "the
>> leaders of the D community").
>>
>> My initial read of your complaint went like this: it's about Windows
>> (I don't
>> even have an installation), it's about vibe.d (haven't used it yet),
>> and it's
>> also discussing documentation (which is something we can indeed
>> improve and I
>> know how to). So a large part of the problem wasn't even mine to work on.
>>
>> Others harbored similar perceptions. The corollary has been that
>> essentially
>> you're asking them to stop working on D aspects they do care about and
>> start
>> working on D aspects you and others care about - all on their free time.
>
> A few thoughts on this.  (This turned a bit longer than expected in the
> writing, so I've highlighted some TL;DR sections to highlight key ideas.)
[snip]

Good stuff, thanks. Question about this:

> TL;DR: I think it would be good to have a strong community guideline
> that people are not to be criticized or treated badly for having
> requests or suggestions, even if they are not willing to implement
> them themselves.  The quid pro quo is that it's necessary to be
> (calmly) candid with people about the limits of _only_ contributing
> ideas or requests: "You can ask but not demand".

What would be an appropriate place to put this?


Andrei