On 4/28/11 3:24 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
On 2011-04-27 21:13, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
On 4/27/11 1:13 AM, Russel Winder wrote:
What also matters is that stuff that stays is stuff that gets done. You
seem to have a good amount of expertise, but at the same time choose to
firmly plant your figurative self in the proverbial armchair. If you
know how to do it, do it, don't attempt to beat others into doing it.
I think it a bit overly-aggressive to use phrases such as "choose to
firmly plant your figurative self in the proverbial armchair" and "beat
others into doing it".
For people who have full-time jobs and therefore secure income who use
some of their work time or spare time to work on projects such as D,
there is the safety of having secure income. For those of us who have
no full-time job it is a matter of all time spent on things like D is
time not spent earning money. Firing off some emails is quick and apart
from a few rants, I think most of my emails are constructive. It is
therefore a serious barrier to be told I am a back seat driver and to
"do something" don't "say something".
With people such as Spacen Jasset tentatively volunteering to contribute
to some work due to this exchange, to start getting censorious of my
efforts to contribute and create an atmosphere of doing something seems
somewhat counter-productive, certainly not community building.
I agree. If posting to the newsgroup is significantly faster for you
than actually spinning some code, then by all means please do post. I
find that posting takes me significant amounts of time.
You can't mean that it takes you significantly more time to write the
above post of two lines than implementing a build tool.
Of course I can't. I didn't either...
Andrei
