Handling constructive criticism

[Jason House]

Walter Bright wrote:

> I can understand your frustration with this. The basic problem is I
> could easily spend 100% of my time just on this newsgroup responding to
> it all. That leaves no time at all for preparing action plans let alone
> trying to implement anything.

I am not so detatched from reality that I expect you to do everything.  D
has become larger than a one man project.  You shouldn't be the one
creating all the action plans, but you should be the one encouraging the
community to pursue specific directions.  

A little empowerment can go a long way.  Who wants to dedicate their spare
time to doing something that ultimately gets veto'd?  What you say may
carry more weight than you realize.

If you state something is a good idea and ask for volunteers to do pieces, I
bet you'll find volunteers.  There are many motivated people on this list
that are actively looking to contribute to the D community (just look at
all the proposals and discussions of proposals).

If someone makes a proposal and you encourage them to flesh it out and post
in bugzilla, they probably will. Those of us that make language design
proposals are already crazy enough to spend lots of our spare time
developing ideas and explaining them to others.