retard Wrote: > Sun, 27 Dec 2009 14:32:52 -0600, 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. > > Have the discussions here ever led to a conclusion and get implemented?
DIP2 is a great example of something designed on this newsgroup that got implemented very recently. It went from newsgroup to bugzilla to DIP to implementation. T[new] is another one that almost made it. > You should at least disallow posting via the web interface - those broken > threads start to annoy some people. Do my posts show up as broken threads? I use the web interface almost exclusively.
