Has D failed? ( unpopular opinion but I think yes )

Rose rose at sarajevo.com
Sat Apr 20 11:29:41 UTC 2019


On Friday, 19 April 2019 at 17:58:24 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> On 4/19/19 1:39 PM, bachmeier wrote:
>> A good example of this, as I mentioned there is the latest 
>> thread on fixing Dub's problems. There are two people who want 
>> to have the final say on everything, but they are completely 
>> silent about a critical piece of official infrastructure 
>> because it's not interesting to them. There is plenty of 
>> manpower willing to do the work, but at this point there are 
>> useless conversations on the mailing list because nobody has 
>> authority to make decisions, so nothing will come of those 
>> conversations.
>
> I've had a number of answers to your framing lack of work on 
> dub as a leadership problem. Deleted them all after chatting 
> with a friend for a couple of hours. Let me just point it that 
> at a certain level you are definitely right - that dub has 
> problem _is_ a leadership problem. The trick is figuring out 
> what the level is.
>
> Sönke Ludwig is the point of contact for Dub according to 
> https://wiki.dlang.org/People. He, Martin, and Seb have had as 
> much decision power as they wanted to with that project. Walter 
> and I have accepted to integrate dub with the distribution 
> after much insistence under an implied social contract that has 
> since decayed.
>
> This seems like a very important project to you, so I would be 
> glad to grant you, bachmeier, full decision power with dub and 
> update the points of contact appropriately. This is not cheeky 
> - I am serious. Please advise.

Dissapearing act... better than Houdini.


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