Georg Wrede, el 12 de mayo a las 06:06 me escribiste: > Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: > >Walter Bright wrote: > >>Georg Wrede wrote: > >>> From a (go ahead, call it "shrewd" and "marketing liar", I won't mind) > >>>perspective, _the_ newsgroup should be called D and it should contain D1 > >>>discussions. And then there should be a less conspicuous NG called "future > >>>releases discussions", which would be D2. > >> > >>Sounds like a good idea. > >I'm all for it. My guess, however, is that this is another case of couch > >quarterbacking that's unlikely to effect a touchdown. Today, the majority of > >discussions on digitalmars.d is about D2 because - surprise! - the stuff > >that > >people are interested in debating has mostly to do with D2. You can't tell > >people what they should be talking about. People vote with their pens. If a > >separate newsgroup is created for digitalmars.d.next, then that won't > >automatically increase the quantity and quality of D1-related traffic on > >digitalmars.d. Then the archetypal noob tunes to digitalmars.d, sees a > >tumbleweed rolling by, and moves on. > > We could rename D.learn to D and D to D.future-issues. > > Then the two newsgroups would be /appropriately seeded/.
Other (mostly open source) projects tend to use -users and -devel. I guess d-users and d-devel could be used in this case too. -- Leandro Lucarella (luca) | Blog colectivo: http://www.mazziblog.com.ar/blog/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- GPG Key: 5F5A8D05 (F8CD F9A7 BF00 5431 4145 104C 949E BFB6 5F5A 8D05) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
