I'd like to participate. Both email and newsgroup are fine. Even IRC or other Internet chatroom would be ok too. Past concurrency/shared discussions on this newsgroup have not suffered from bikeshed issues. I think it's all been too theoretical or outside moat programmers' experience. There's almost no keywords to debate anyway.
Andrei Alexandrescu Wrote: > I think we are now in the position of defining a solid set of > concurrency primitives for D. This follows many months of mulling over > models and options. > > It would be great to open the participation to the design as broadly as > possible, but I think it's realistic to say we won't be able to get > things done on the newsgroup. When we discuss a topic around here, > there's plenty of good ideas but also the inevitable bikeshed > discussions, explanations being asked, explanations being given, and > other sources of noise. We simply don't have the time to deal with all > that - the time is short and we only have one shot at this. > > That's why I'm thinking of creating a mailing list or maybe another > group for this. Any ideas on what would be the best approach? I also > want to gauge interest from threading experts who'd like to participate. > Please advise: (a) whether you would like to participate to the design; > (b) keep discussions on the general group; (c) create a separate > newsgroup; (d) create a mailing list. The latter would have open enrollment. > > > Andrei
