A New Era for the D Community

[Mike Parker]

On Tuesday, 27 June 2023 at 11:30:42 UTC, Francesco Mecca wrote:

>
> It would be great if you specify or at least give us a glimpse 
> of what this "change" is about. Right now, it sounds like 
> corporate propaganda for Ucora

It's not propaganda. I answered questions about it in BeerConf 
last month, and Adam summarized it here:

https://dpldocs.info/this-week-in-d/Blog.Posted_2023_05_29.html

TLDR; it's about understanding stakeholder motivations and 
looking for opportunities where they align. Right now, we're just 
employing it internally to get our house in order. Down the road, 
when we're able to find volunteers to take on tasks (a few people 
have expressed interest already after the BeerConf session), 
understanding their motivations will help us know who to approach 
first for any given task.

That's just one way in which we'll be employing it. It's helped 
me in recognizing opportunities I wouldn't have before, and it's 
had an impact on the way the DLF team conducts meetings and 
approaches problem solving and planning.

Anyway, the main point of this announcement wasn't IVY, it's that 
we're finally getting organized. IVY is just the tool we're using 
to do it. No D user or contributor needs to pay any attention to 
it if they don't want to.