What don't you switch to GitHub issues

[Paolo Invernizzi]

On Thursday, 4 January 2018 at 19:06:14 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
wrote:
> On Thursday, January 04, 2018 10:27:37 H. S. Teoh via 
> Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 04, 2018 at 10:23:57AM +0000, Paolo Invernizzi via
> Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> > On Thursday, 4 January 2018 at 07:47:41 UTC, H. S. Teoh 
>> > wrote:
>> > > [...]
>> >
>> > I'm missing Kenji...
>>
>> Me too. :-(  Does anybody know what happened to him? He just 
>> sortof dropped off the radar suddenly and I haven't been able 
>> to find out where he went or what happened to him since ~2 
>> years ago.
>
> I don't know the details, but I heard that he got annoyed when 
> Andrei closed some of his PRs that were supposed to reformat 
> the compiler's code to match what it had been before it was 
> automatically converted to D (since apparently, the automatic 
> conversion mucked with some of the formatting). I gather than 
> Keji preferred the way that the code had been formatted before, 
> whereas Andrei thought that PRs that just changed formatting 
> were a waste of time, but I don't know. There may have been 
> other causes of friction involved, or something else may have 
> happened in his personal life, but it sounded like Kenji got 
> annoyed/frustrated over what was happening with his PRs for dmd 
> and left.
>
> Either way, he was a strong contributor, and it's a shame that 
> he's gone now. Plenty of other good contributors have basically 
> fallen off the map as well, but his loss is probably more 
> strongly felt than most given that he was able to do an insane 
> amount of work, and he was one of the core contributors to the 
> compiler.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

I remember very well that event... along with others.

Andrei recently posted that he is following less the forums as he 
prefer to invest his time in a different way ...
Adam suggested Walter to follow the 'learn' forum to have a 
cleaner idea about common problems in the language usage, and 
Walter replied that he prefers to invest his time digging  and 
solving Bugzilla issues...

There's nothing wrong with that, and it's reasonable also.

But it's a sign, IMHO, of something wrong with the management of 
the 'human factors' in dlang-land.

/Paolo