On Wednesday, 23 October 2013 at 01:24:26 UTC, Jesse Phillips
wrote:
Well, I think dsource should survive in some capacity due to
the reasons already given. Depending on what taking it over
entails, I could probably give it a try. With more permissions
the homepage could be cleaned up. I'm not going to be the most
actionable on it, but probably can be a gateway into accepting
new maintainers.
My thinking of what this should entail:
1) take over the dsource.org domain and point it to a new server
2) the new site should provide free forums just as the current
one does, but nothing more.
3) existing projects still using the forums at the current site
should be migrated.
4) existing projects still actively maintaining a subversion
repository at the current site should be encouraged to move to
another scc hosting solution of their choice (github, bitbucket,
whatever).
5) the new site should maintain a searchable registry of all
known open source D projects (just a link and a blurb),
regardless of whether or not the project uses the forum.
In other words, a complete overhaul. Of course, the few people
still using dsource would need to agree to this. Even if they
don't, I think this sort of site should exist. It would be a
centralized location for all D projects. I would much prefer it
to be under the dsource.org domain, since then all of the dead
projects there will eventually fall off of the search engines.
Plus, "dsource" still makes sense, as it can then can be used
solely in the sense of "the source for D projects" (I've always
seen it as having a dual meaning, as "source for D" and "D source
code").
I'd be willing to pay for a basic Linode instance, or pitch-in
for a more expensive one. I'd also be willing to donate a few
hours a week to maintenance in whatever capacity I could.
