Clojure and Pull Request Controversy

[Chris]

On Wednesday, 28 November 2018 at 00:12:15 UTC, Walter Bright 
wrote:
> The issue of prioritization of reviewing PRs, etc, perennially 
> comes up and has done so again recently:
>
> https://digitalmars.com/d/archives/digitalmars/D/It_is_the_year_2020_why_should_I_use_learn_D_321380.html#N321572
>
> It seems we're not the only group struggling with this issue. 
> Food for thought, and some controversy:
>
> https://gist.github.com/richhickey/1563cddea1002958f96e7ba9519972d9

I sincerely hope you don't identify with the OP.

> https://gist.github.com/halgari/c17f378718cbd2fd82324002133ef678#gistcomment-2768338
>
> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18538123

I'm quoting the comments, because the links under "Copy link" 
didn't work.

"[...] Yes, of course everything you said is technically correct. 
You don't owe anyone anything. But you don't have to be so 
petulant about it. Saying that users aren't even entitled to an 
explanation of why they're not entitled to support is childish in 
the extreme, particularly because your own company and livelihood 
are heavily dependent upon the work that some of those users gave 
you for free.
[...]
I do appreciate that you're making your position very clear - 
hopefully this can help projects and companies make 
better-informed decisions about whether they want to be locked in 
to a project that operates this way. Just dial it back a bit, eh?"
-- briangordon

"Open source may be a gift, but it doesn't come with batteries 
included, and so there's a cost for adopting such a "gift." If 
you want people to use your software, closed- or open-source, you 
do need to make it worth their time and show some basic decency 
to your users."
-- tommyettinger

You cannot say "We need help, we're a small community!" and then 
when people step up and do help say "Who are you anyway? You're 
not entitled to anything!"

And as regards adopting the software, when you read this thread

https://forum.dlang.org/post/ljrm0d$28vf$1@digitalmars.com

you will not even think twice about whether or not to adopt it, 
you just run away. Ironically enough, it was about the time the 
post about "more radical ideas" was posted that I was beginning 
to feel very uneasy with D.

Yesterday I was innocently thinking if and how LDC+Android could 
be integrated into Android Studio via CMake etc., but then it 
occurred to me that even if I / we succeeded in doing so, the D 
code itself might still break anytime, because of "more radical 
ideas". Maybe D should be rebranded as "Minefield".