Feedback from the Gripes and Wishes Campaign

[deadalnix]

On Friday, 19 May 2023 at 19:01:46 UTC, GrimMaple wrote:
> On Friday, 19 May 2023 at 18:37:05 UTC, IGotD- wrote:
>> If you have made a PR that is popular, the maintainers have no 
>> power to stop it which will only lead to that D eventually 
>> will be forked.
>
> I roflmaoed. Walter has literally been blocking changes and 
> even __reverting commits__ based on personal preference, 
> despite the majority of the community agreeing on the change. 
> Important people left because of this in the past.

Good. As Coluche said, it's not because they are many to be wrong 
that they are right.

I do not know if Walter was justified in each of these instance 
specifically, but there needs to be someone guarding things 
aligned with the vision, and it's never "the community" that does 
that.

I'd be much more worried of any project where the leader does NOT 
do this from time to time.