On 04/22/2016 02:34 PM, Chris wrote: >> Common misconception is that D team has any manpower it can >> potentially invest into promising projects. It doesn't. Some >> volunteers are more commited than others but there is no one (not even >> Andrei or Walter) who can tell others what spend their time one. There >> are both good and bad consequences from that but it is simply how >> things work right now. >> >> As such, only thing that can attract more manpower to any project >> (including DLangUI) is for author/maintainer to make it useful for >> many people and to make it easy and pleasant for them to contribute >> (see vibe.d case as an example). > > We all know that. But we can at least try to keep projects going that > are promising and important in the long run.
But who are those "we" you refer to? :) Or, to rephrase, do you really envision a volunteer abandoning any project/task he has current personal interest in to work on some third-party project (he doesn't need) because of its strategical value? Call be grumpy and skeptical but open-source pretty much never works like that. Specifically calls for arms like yours have been done many times before and always with exactly 0 effective outcome. I am not saying that you shouldn't call for arms, just don't be surprised/offended if nothing happens as a result :)