Martin Nowak is officially MIA

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On Thursday, 18 June 2015 at 14:43:15 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> Thanks all for the feedback; a follow up is in order seeing as 
> there are a few misunderstandings of the situation.
>
> First off, framing this matter as impinging on someone's 
> vacation is a misinterpretation. Taking time off has nothing to 
> do with it - anyone should. Just Walter, myself, the "This Week 
> in D" author, and the release manager please let us know so 
> things can be planned accordingly.
>
> To thrive, we need to expand the inner circle of folks who are 
> closely involved with D to the extent the community knows why 
> they're missing when they're missing. Currently that circle 
> includes only Walter and myself; if either of us would go dark 
> for weeks without the other (and others) knowing, that'd be 
> worrisome.
>
> To wit, I wrote this to Martin and Walter on May 31st:
>
> ====
> Today is May 31st, so we're entering the last month of H1. I'd 
> like to get an early start on updating the vision document, and 
> before creating yet another rambling thread on the forum I 
> thought we should start between the three of us.
>
> What do you guys think would be the main points to attack in 
> H2? Martin, it's particularly important to hear from you.
> ====
>
> I hope it's clearer that it was quite unsettling to not hear 
> back about that or anything else.
>
> Regarding the volunteer vs. paid employee aspect - clearly 
> that's a problem. All I can do now is work on the foundation 
> and hope to find sponsors that would allow us to pay the 
> release manager, the keeper of "This Week in D" and others.
>
> About the privacy aspect - the forum post came after repeated 
> fruitless attempts of private contact. Addressing matters in 
> person, privately, is of course the right way and the one I've 
> tried through all channels I could think of.
>
> Building the process is a difficult and very important job. It 
> stands to reason, then, that we need several folks who can do 
> it and cover contingencies. Martin and I are in talks about 
> building this release together; it would be great if we could 
> get a broader participation.
>
> There's one more note of interest:
>
>> This is off-putting for me as someone who is getting steadily 
>> more
>> involved in D, what other implicit contracts do you think 
>> we've all
>> signed?
>
> None, of course. Far as I can tell the dynamics are as follows:
>
> * Walter and I can be counted on being around barring announced 
> absences or exceptional circumstances.
>
> * Adam D. Ruppe, Walter, and I discussed that there will be 
> consistency of "This Week in D". Announced outages are fine, 
> "I'll do it when/if I get to it" is not.
>
> * The release managers should be counted on for planning and 
> reliably carrying the release. I am now sorry I wasn't clearer 
> about that.
>
> * There are a few folks with particularly important roles: Iain 
> (GDC), Kai (LDC), Brad (autotester), and Vladimir (forum and a 
> variety of tools). If any of these would suddenly leave, the 
> community would be in difficulty. They work independently and I 
> wish we found ways to pay them and coordinate better with them, 
> but there is no implied or express expectation.
>
> * There are a number of heavy-hitting contributors (such as 
> Daniel, Kenji, and about a dozen others) who have a strong 
> positive impact. Again there is no expectation they're around.
>
> * Up-and-coming contributors are always welcome and we should 
> improve our tooling to make it easy for anyone to contribute.
>
> Probably the best action item is this:
>
>> I would like to ask, what can we improve in our tooling and
>> infrastructure to lessen the burden on release czars? I know 
>> nightly
>> builds have been discussed for years, and it would be great to 
>> take
>> advantage of the multi-platform infrastructure of the current
>> autotester for it, but it doesn't look like that's going to 
>> happen.
>
> Yah, ideally the autotester would just build the release as 
> well for each platform on the same machines it's using. Sadly 
> Brad wouldn't want to take that task.
>
> One thing I'll be trying to work on with Martin is a directory 
> under tools/ that contains reasonably stable release building 
> scripts for all platforms.
>
>
> Andrei

It sounds to me like you are legitimately doing everything you 
can, that is great!!!! Without people like you, things don't get 
done.

Just remember, some people need a break from things, get upset 
over stupid immature stuff or misunderstandings. Remember, some 
people are more emotionally equipped, or less, depending on your 
perspective, to deal with "things"(life, arguments, etc).

My gut reaction was that you simply overreacted thinking either 
he jumped the boat or got hit by one. Chances are neither 
happened since those are the extremes(of course, you were hoping 
for one or the other so your "disappointment" would be unfounded).

I would simply say, relax! ;) Solve the problem and move on! 
Don't get caught up in it all. Find another *whatever* his job 
was, someone to help him with the work load, or talk to him about 
whatever got his panties in a wad.

In any case, true communication is the best line of defense 
against these problems.

Which, I'm sure you agree and which is what upset you in the 
first place: Since he failed to stay in communication. But this 
came from some previous issues with communication which upset his 
feathers or whatever.

Anyways, not everyone's the same! It's a good thing!