Martin Nowak is officially MIA

[Martin Nowak via Digitalmars-d]

On 06/17/2015 08:35 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> The role of Release Manager and "This Week In D" are the two ones
> somewhat special in the community: they're closest to an actual "job",
> in the sense that regularity and professionalism are crucial. You need
> to "show up" and do it. If "This Week in D" is not there on Sunday
> evening, it's not a weekly. If we have no release manager and no
> contingency plan, we can't release. In the future we'll have folks
> depending on this and planning ahead for it.
> 
> You wouldn't just not go to work for two weeks and then show up at your
> desk as if nothing happened. This kind of stuff needs some level of
> planning, barring exceptional events. For example, Adam could tell his
> readership "I'll be on vacation next week, so no issue on August 9".
> Which is totally fine.

Well, I've been on vacation and prolonged that spontaneously for another
week or so.

> I'm very happy Martin is doing well but I am disappointed about this
> unprofessional behavior. In fact I could only assume the worst because
> he seemed one of the most serious people I've dealt with, so this came
> as quite a major breakage of trust.

I tried to convince people for 2 years to plan development (remember
http://wiki.dlang.org/Agenda) and never got anyone to cooperate. It's
very difficult to plan a release when people develop random stuff on
master, hopefully this will improve with the more regular releases.

-Martin