On Wed, 16 Mar 2011 11:27:03 -0400, Mike James <[email protected]> wrote:
"Regan Heath" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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On Wed, 16 Mar 2011 01:13:33 -0000, jasonw <[email protected]> wrote:
One problem is the large amount of obsolete data (
http://www.dsource.org/projects/dmdfe )
Dsource is The place for D projects. The problem with dsource is if
you're a serious professional and need professional quality libraries
and tools, dsource does nothing in the way of supporting these types
of users. The sections are filled with small hobby projects such as
http://www.dsource.org/projects/libcalc. What I'm looking for is
somehing that emphasizes the names of "important" projects. For
example standard parallel/concurrency/server/socket/vfs libraries are
a first class priority. It takes a day to browse through the list of
mediocre crap.
I was browsing dsource the other day and I wanted to be able to sort
projects by last update date or something, to find the ones which were
being currently maintained. It would certainly be useful to sort by a
category like [alpha] [beta] [stable] etc as well. I think dsource is
the correct place to put any/all of our 'crap' but it just needs to be
easier to sort and find the things you're interested in, at any one
time. i.e. what if you were looking for a project to lend a hand to,
no use finding one which is pretty much [stable] and complete.
R
The front page of dsource should have 5-10 useful, complete and tested
projects highlighted. All the dross and projects never completed (or the
'wishful thinking' projects that were never even started) should be
relegated deep.
The front page should be there to introduce, and intice, the prospective
D user to some useful libraries...
I think it would be good enough to make projects that have not had a
change in the last year get dropped to an "older projects" page.
Anyone who has a still-maintained but seldom-changing project could just
make a change in the home page once a year or something to prevent this
from happening.
For my project dcollections, there have been long periods with no change
because I haven't been using it, and nobody is reporting bugs. But that
doesn't mean it's not a robust project ready for use. I wouldn't mind
just having to ping it every once in a while to make sure it stays "fresh".
-Steve
