On 10/28/2015 01:41 PM, Dejan Lekic wrote:
I suggest we do not try to reinvent the wheel.
Simply take a look how existing, large communities do this kind of work.
Example: https://jcp.org/en/jsr/all
For each large feature (a good example in the D case would be pattern
matching, allocators, reference counting, additional garbage collectors,
etc) a special working group should be formed. With initial working
group owner who manages the group (adds other owners, collaborators, or
some other types of users). Each group would work at own pace until they
come up with a good design, and after that the group does the
implementation as well. Each group would have own repository where they
commit their work. Organising such groups can be uniform (something I
think is better), or each group organises itself.
Naturally, it is probably a full-time job for someone to coordinate with
groups, does overall monitoring, etc.
Each group can, and probably will, gain interest of the academic world,
something we should encourage, and help PhD/MSc students jump in
relevant groups to the benefits of both.
Also, each working group can be tied to a GSoC project, mentored by
people from the community.
This will add an extra level of seriousness to the D project as I prefer
to call it.
Yup, that's the plan and dlang-study is the first step of it. -- Andre
