"Caligo" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > IMO the idea of having something like dsource as the place for D projects > is > silly and is doomed to failure. I think dsource's current state says it > all. The internet should be the place for D projects, not just one > website. Besides, there are sites that have been designed to do what > dsource is trying to do. If you want to share your D projects with rest > of > the world, use sites such as freshmeat, ohloh, github, gitorious, > bitbucket, > savannah, etc. If the project is big enough, it could have it's own > dedicated site. Then maybe the main D site could link to some of the big > projects on the internet. >
Not a bad point, but there's four main things I like about dsource: - Want to find D-related projects? It's a one-stop-shop. - It allows people to file bug reports, feature requests, forum posts, etc using a throwaway email address like mailinator. I like that not only as a project user, but also as a project manager: I *don't* want to deny myself feedback for such a stupid, petty reason as "The user wants to protect their email address - so fuck them!". - Aside from the project listing page (which, yes, is notably bad in it's current state), it never requires JS for things that obviously don't actually need JS. Again, I like this both as a site user *and* as a project manager. - It's fairly VCS-agnostic unline many (though admittedly not all) of the popular OSS project hosting sites.
