Walter and Andrei and community relationship management

[Nick B via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 6 April 2017 at 19:27:50 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:

> We commit to be more formal about the process, but overall it 
> is correct that we have more say in what gets in the language. 
> Allow me to add a couple of things.
>
> First, this is the way things are commonly done in language 
> design - a small committee defines a formal process and 
> ultimately decides on features. In fact it is unusual that we 
> put up unfinished ideas up for discussion, which we hope has 
> the raises the level of responsibility in the community. I 
> understand how what we did has been misunderstood as us just 
> considering ourselves exempt from the due process. We have a 
> very strong interest to follow a formal process and have the 
> trail serve as a template to follow. (That intent is visible in 
> https://github.com/dlang/DIPs/blob/master/DIPs/DIP1005.md as 
> well, with the unexpected twist of an interesting idea that 
> obsoleted it. The idea has come from Daniel Nielsen in this 
> forum and has been adapted with credit in 
> https://github.com/dlang/druntime/pull/1756.)
>
> Second, we are very much open to increasing the size of our 
> committee. This is already happening - it is obvious that known 
> strong contributors with a good track record and who make 
> consistently valuable have a huge impact on the language and 
> library definition. Fortunately we have quite a few of those. 
> In contrast, our attention is more difficult to be commanded by 
> commentators who have little history of pull requests, 
> good-quality DIPs, articles etc. and attempt to strong-arm us 
> into pursuing underspecified ideas.
>
> Third, all of this is a process not an immutable status. We are 
> learning leadership on the job, and although I think we have 
> made large strides since only e.g. one year ago, there is much 
> more to improve. Expect more changes in the future and please 
> bear with us and grant us your understanding as we are getting 
> the hang of it.

Thank you for the detailed reply.  It helps the understanding by 
the community.