On 28/05/2020 12:33 AM, aberba wrote:
On Thursday, 21 May 2020 at 18:36:51 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 05:49:27PM +0000, Paul Backus via
Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: [...]
Even if we suppose for the sake of argument that the decision is
sound on a technical level, this is poor leadership, and bodes ill
for the future of the D language and its community.
D excels at the technical aspects, but time and time again has shown
that it lacks proper management / leadership. Contrary to my own
inclinations I'm compelled to suggest hiring a *non-technical* person
to take up the management/leadership roles (emphatically
non-technical, because let's face it, we techies just don't have the
people skillz it takes to do this properly), because the current
situation clearly isn't working, and is quite detrimental to D and its
future.
T
Ha ha. I tried suggesting something like this some yrs ago as I saw it
happen and deadalnix bashed me like crazy. Didn't articulate it as well
as you just did though. This needs to happen.
I've been saying since 2012 that we need a project manager to help with
communication.
Mike has taken on parts of this role and has done quite a good job of it.
