Andrei's Google Talk

[retard]

Wed, 04 Aug 2010 20:22:09 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

> On 08/04/2010 07:25 PM, Jeff Nowakowski wrote:
>> On 08/04/2010 05:16 PM, Robert Clipsham wrote:
>>>
>>> I know of several large apps written in D, they're all D1/Tango.
>>
>> The incomplete state of D2 has to be the most embarrassing question
>> that could have been asked at Andrei's talk, but then you'd have to be
>> familiar with D to ask that question. Andrei likes to talk about
>> presentations showing only what's good, but he gave a whole talk about
>> an incomplete language while hawking his book for said language, but
>> made no mention of D1 vs D2.
>>
>> People often ask for a status, but there never seems to be good
>> answers. Where's the roadmap? What's being worked on? What's left to
>> fix? Is there a release date that's being worked towards? It used to
>> coincide with the release of Andrei's book, but that has come and gone.
> 
> Walter is more silent than usual because he's working very hard on the
> 64-bit compiler. He hopes to have one by the end of this month. His next
> big goal is shared library support.

Ok, Walter is working on a 64-bit compiler, then on the shared library 
support. That's great. But many of us would like to know who is

 * managing the communication with the user community
 * managing the communication with the language/compiler developers
 * managing the bugfixes to the spec
 * managing the compiler bugfix release (minor version) process
 * managing the language development debate
 * coordinating the future language development (roadmap page of the trac)
 * managing the public relations with the people outside the core 
community

It seems Walter wants to be a lonely wolf. Nobody else is allowed to do 
anything listed above unless you're Andrei. There are no managers, we 
only have experts working with their favorite features and no 
communication exists between these persons or the community.