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[Sean Kelly]

Sean Kelly wrote:
> Bill Baxter wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 11:22 AM, bearophile <bearophileHUGS at lycos.com> 
>> wrote:
>>> Bill Baxter:
>>>> But as a meta-wish I  heartily agree with whoever it was who said the
>>>> development process needs to be made more open.
>>> I hope it's not wrong to show this link here:
>>> http://www.digitalmars.com/webnews/newsgroups.php?art_group=digitalmars.D&article_id=77168 
>>
>> To those more directly involved: Would I be wrong saying the
>> Phobos/Tango split never would have happened if D had a truly open
>> development process?
> 
> Possibly.  Ares (a precursor to Tango) was basically created as an 
> attempt to try and coordinate community effort for Phobos submissions. 
> The goals of the project changed over time, but that was the basic 
> inspiration.

I should add, however, that I'm not sure whether the resulting druntime 
would have existed if Phobos were more open.  I don't think I would have 
messed with things quite so aggressively if I had actual users and 
compatibility to worry about ;-)  So things may have worked out for the 
best anyway.


Sean