On Thursday, 1 November 2018 at 03:18:44 UTC, SealabJaster wrote:
On Monday, 29 October 2018 at 16:40:20 UTC, FooledDonor wrote:
On Monday, 29 October 2018 at 16:01:38 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
One of the easiest ways to support the D Language Foundation
is using smile.amazon.com when you make a purchase. Until Nov
2, they're running a special where they're donating 5% (10
times the usual amount) you buy through AmazonSmile.
smile.amazon.com/ch/47-5352856
Perhaps a fundamental principle is not clear enough at the
foundation: transparency.
Where is the vision of the third and fourth quarter? Where are
the deliveries of things in the pipeline? What is the progress
of the various jobs started?
Which people is funding, with how much money and for what
expected results?
Where is the newCTFE? Was the work on this point financed by
the foundation?
I've never seen a report on the state of affairs, neither from
the president, nor from Andrei, nor from Walter.
How do you hope to obtain trust and funding, if NO one even
deigns to give the least development plan or feedback on past
developments?
It seems that everyone has locked up in their ivory tower ...
It's kind of discouraging to see that your post, as well as
another thread asking something similar regarding the vision
document[1] have gone unanswered...
Maybe the people who could answer these things just don't see
them, or maybe they're purposefully being quiet. It would be
nice to know what's going on at the very least ;(
[1]
https://forum.dlang.org/thread/qmwovarkjgvxyibsl...@forum.dlang.org
My guess, and this is purely a guess, is that they got
discouraged by how few people paid attention to the Vision
document or donated to the foundation on Opencollective and
haven't bothered with this stuff since.
I think that's a mistake, as you may need to do this stuff for
awhile before it picks up. In any case, I don't care that it
isn't happening, as I always said that it's better to have
decentralized bounties, like we had on bountysource, rather than
centralized funding through the D Foundation.
Maybe the upcoming targeted campaigns will be a good middle
ground, in that you will be able to directly contribute to
specific targets:
https://dlang.org/blog/2018/07/13/funding-code-d/
