On 1/1/15 10:45 AM, Joseph Rushton Wakeling via Digitalmars-d wrote:

On 29/12/14 05:13, Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d wrote:

I did want to say something about this. I've given a close read to the
"Lost a
new commercial user this week" thread, through and through. It seems I've
identified a problem that belongs to us. ("Us" is a vacuous term
meaning "the
leaders of the D community").

My initial read of your complaint went like this: it's about Windows
(I don't
even have an installation), it's about vibe.d (haven't used it yet),
and it's
also discussing documentation (which is something we can indeed
improve and I
know how to). So a large part of the problem wasn't even mine to work on.

Others harbored similar perceptions. The corollary has been that
essentially
you're asking them to stop working on D aspects they do care about and
start
working on D aspects you and others care about - all on their free time.

A few thoughts on this.  (This turned a bit longer than expected in the
writing, so I've highlighted some TL;DR sections to highlight key ideas.)

[snip]

Good stuff, thanks. Question about this:

TL;DR: I think it would be good to have a strong community guideline
that people are not to be criticized or treated badly for having
requests or suggestions, even if they are not willing to implement
them themselves.  The quid pro quo is that it's necessary to be
(calmly) candid with people about the limits of _only_ contributing
ideas or requests: "You can ask but not demand".

What would be an appropriate place to put this?