Walter and Andrei and community relationship management

[Joseph Rushton Wakeling via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 10 April 2017 at 22:07:11 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> There are many. A random sampling:
>
> Daniel Murphy - moving front end to D
> Jacob Carlborg - Objective C support
> Stephan Koch - newCTFE
> Brad Roberts - autotester, bugzilla
> the gdc and ldc teams
> Rainer Schutze - GC work, Visual Studio support
> Martin Nowak - the releases
> Ali Cehreli - book on D
> Adam Ruppe - book on D
> Jan Knepper - the dlang site server

One thing that's noticeable about all of these is that they are 
all changes to the language implementation (e.g. D frontend, 
newCTFE, GC), documentation (the books, the website), tools (the 
other compilers), and distribution; but none of them are 
significant changes to the language _definition_.

The only one that comes close is the Objective C support and 
that's a supplemental feature (albeit a very useful and important 
one) that's about how D interacts with other languages, rather 
than how D itself works.

Even allowing for the fact that changes to the language 
definition should face a high bar (made higher by the general 
wish for non-breaking changes), that suggests that the 
'champion'-based approach may run into difficulties when it comes 
to more fundamental contributions to the D language.