On 05/27/2014 02:12 AM, chuck wrote: > Would anyone be interested in a collaboration forum? I am thinking of > starting one on Proboards to aid in development/collaboration between > developers on D and libraries/bindings. Reading through the posts, I > have seen that several people have created small projects that do the > same thing (I have seen multiple for MySql alone, none of which has > really gained true traction). > > So here is what I propose: > 1) The forum will be host different aspects of development > (Database/bindings, Phobos development, networking tools, etc.). > > 2) Form dev. committees to fill the most useful tasks in the group of > choice. For example, focusing on doing one thing quickly and sustainably > rather than burning out creating a project alone that will be difficult > to maintain afterwords. > > 3) This should help increase the number of code examples, increasing the > visibility of D to anyone interested. Hopefully, this will also increase > the community.
I think it's a great idea - DETF (D Engineering Task Force). For this to succeed, I think connecting to existing communication channels is very important. This means NNTP/mailing list, github, auto-tester, dub, wiki (with DIPS) etc etc. Setting up some new PHP forums will only split the community.
