D and open development model

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

Leandro Lucarella wrote:
> Hi, I'm sorry to spam here with self references, but I don't know if
> Walter and other D developers read Planet D, and I really appreciate if
> they could read this blog post:
> 
> D and open development model: http://llucax.com.ar/blog/blog/post/6cac01e1
> 
> This tries to be a constructive criticism and a recognition to the
> advances made in the last year(s?). I was about to write it directly to
> the D group but I thought it could hit a more wider audience as a blog
> post, and it could attract some people that had left D because of its
> closeness.
> 
> I hope you find it useful.

Nice! Mea culpa for the all-too-brief release notes. Now that I know 
people are looking, I'll beef them up.

One thing - "D2 should be release fairly soon because Andrei is writing 
a book that has a deadline and the language has to be finalized by the 
time the book is published." Well that's not quite it happened 
historically. The impinging release of D2 was conceived to occur 
concurrently with, not determined by, the book. If I could, I'd probably 
choose to not have a deadline either but that's not how book publishing 
works.

As far as commit notification goes, no later than yesterday I asked Brad 
Anderson about automated emails. He said he's a bit strapped for time, 
but will arrange soon such that Phobos commits are emailed to an address 
on my server. I'll create a mailing list open to anyone interested.

Thanks for a nice article.


Andrei