On 04/24/2011 11:18 AM, lurker wrote:
Yes, everyone is voting yes. And half of the voters haven't ever used
parallelism or know anything about its library level design issues.
This voting process seemed like a joke. I know this kind of voting is
popular in other projects, but D community's infrastructure isn't
ready for this. It just shows how UNagile and clumsy the design
process is and merely a meat puppet theatre for hiding a dictatorship
with uninformed "democracy". You could just add stuff until someone
starts complaining and begin hardcore technical discussion when real
problems arise.
Cheers, sock puppet #2347
There are a couple of issues that reflect quite ironically on the author
of this.
First, well, it's a sock puppet - meaning that the statement is
something the author would be ashamed to put their name under.
But the funniest thing is the _choice_ of criticism. If the point is to
demean the D programming language's community, I'm sure there are much
better cherries to pick than this one! The proposal on std.parallelism
is at its second incarnation after having been practically demolished in
its first instance. It's quite obvious to anyone who paid attention that
the good consensus this time around is a direct consequence of the
extensive improvements prompted by strong scrutiny.
Regarding the expertise level of the voters, I agree with what others
said - a non-expert reviewer and voter is a valuable resource. I presume
that people who don't give a crap about a domain won't bother to vote.
Then, if an interested non-expert looks over the documentation and
thinks "well this is something that I see myself using if the need
arises" then that's good signal too. It was in fact one criticism I made
about the first version of std.parallelism - its documentation was
written for specialists.
Last but not least, associating David Simcha with an allegation of a
dictatorship - that literally put a smile on my face. David would be
probably the worst example of a dictatorship's camarilla ever. The only
thing about David that anyone in the dictator's inner circle knows is
his work.
Andrei
