Does it make sense? In my opinion, no, but according to Andrei be
has tried being less hands-on before and it resulted in
measurably worse quality code in Phobos; thus, he re-established
himself as the gatekeeper. I agree that it doesn't scale and
think that at this point, it's probably actively hurting Phobos
because a lot of good work sits for so long and eventually
becomes abandoned.
On the other hand, it could become much worse for Phobos if he
was entirely hands off and delegated its shepherding to a larger
group of core contributors. A balance has to be struck
somewhere... Maybe a hypothetical group like this needs to be
trained by Andrei such that he can trust them to properly guide
Phobos' development, and will only come to him with the really
big, important stuff.
By the same measure, I feel that Walter is becoming a bottleneck
on dmd development and maybe a similar solution is necessary.
