The forked elephant in the room

[Hors]

On Friday, 19 January 2024 at 18:56:52 UTC, Richard (Rikki) 
Andrew Cattermole wrote:
> On 20/01/2024 7:52 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
>> I get a constant stream of requests for attention. There's 
>> only so much I can respond to. Adding another source will 
>> likely just make me less productive.
>
> I can certainly understand that.
>
> But all of these giant drama threads are already doing that, 
> not to mention the loss of productivity of others.
>
> That's the problem with leadership, you have to delegate, you 
> can't do everything yourself.

i thought this was the definition of open source software, you 
can do things without needing a leader. Can't community discuss 
about things without leader, if leader declines it (which is 
unlikely if most of the people actually want it), then you can 
always fork.