On Monday, 30 October 2023 at 14:19:58 UTC, Guillaume Piolat wrote:
> On Sunday, 29 October 2023 at 12:54:33 UTC, Imperatorn wrote:
> Can we count on that if we find an issue with D that it will be taken care of? And if so, how, and by whom? That it will not be silently ignored for years? How can we safeguard against that?
By trying to be a net-positive contributor to the D ecosystem and especially core team: libraries, but also mentoring, money, etc. You create the incentives to help your company.
D is a communal effort, without supporting the community and "giving back" D wouldn't exist. It's really quite hard to do well.
Well. I took a quick look at phobos for example.
And it's been almost unchanged since 2019.
We discussed this on Discord trying to understand why.
Some name Andrei "leaving" is a reason, Wilzbach was also a contributor who left. And Jack Stouffer.
Some mentioned that betterC got too much attention and someone else said too heavy focus on nogc slowed things down in general.
I don't know which of these are correct, but it's a bit worrying.
Do you have an explaination to why the number of contributions to phobos has decreased so much since about 2018-2019?