The forked elephant in the room

[FairEnough]

On Sunday, 28 January 2024 at 11:23:45 UTC, Dibyendu Majumdar 
wrote:
>
> ..
> But this where you get it wrong. This is not a business. The 
> thing about D is that everyone works on what they want to work 
> on. and its perfectly valid for Walter to work on whatever 
> motivates him.
>
> It took me a while to grasp this about the D eco-system, but 
> its key to getting your expectations right. If you want a 
> business like focused approach that managed top-down, this is 
> not it.

So I am pretty sure I fully understand the concept of opensource 
and also the concept of people volunteering their time to it. I 
don't need lessons in that ;-)

I have assumed, perhaps wrongly, that (at the time of that PR) 
there were other people volunteering their time to the compiler 
as well, besides Walter. In that were true, then a team based 
approach would not be consistent with slipping this PR in, more 
or less without warning.

In any case, as I said, my comment is not about the PR itself, 
but the manner in which it was pulled. Even in an opensource 
project like this, team work remains the key to its success. To 
me, the way the PR found its way into the compiler, suggest 
either no team existed, or team work was not a priority.

I understand that this is just my view, and not necessarily how 
it is. But it's my view that matters to me ;-)