On 9/12/2014 2:46 p.m., Mike Parker wrote:
I've noticed an increase in the number of people coming to these forums
(particularly .learn) for help with some of the tools and libraries in
the D ecosystem. Some of these projects have their own forums, others
don't. I think it would be beneficial to have a new group on the news
server, something like digitalmars.D.thirdparty. I see a few benefits
from this:
* it helps keep .D and .learn focused on DMD and the language
* it gives us one place to point people to for help with libraries
* it gives library developers with no forum space a place to offer
support for their libraries
Back in the dsource days it wasn't so bad having separate forums from
the newsgroups because they were all hosted in one place. IMO, it added
to the cohesion of the community. New users don't always turn to the
newsgroups, but they often showed up on dsource to look for help with
specific projects. Now, while many D projects are hosted at github, the
maintainers are on their own when it comes to support forums. D users
may need to create multiple forum accounts for the projects that have
them, while turning to .learn or #D for those that don't. New users have
nothing guiding them into the main channels of communication. That
cohesion of the community is gone.
Thoughts?
I like it, but maybe extend it one further with:
digitalmars.D.libraries.learn
and
digitalmars.D.libraries
With the later being more design/implementation/request sort of thing.
