Where Is THE Hype?

[Glen Perkins]

There are a lot of us who are just keeping an eye on D's progress by checking the
newsgroup / forum from time to time without posting, and we're often the guys who
keep others updated. I've been telling friends and colleagues about D.

I've also been telling them that v1.0 would be officially released on Jan. 1, so
there are quite a few of us who have been waiting for this date. It apparently
isn't happening, but that's not a problem for me or any of my friends. It would be
nice, though, to have a brief status report from Walter along with the state of
his thinking regarding a dev plan. Having one always available on D's home page
would save having to dig through the forum postings for Walter's posts and having
to mentally collect his offhand comments to piece together into an implied plan.

This doesn't have to be an onerous task. The Mono Project handled it well, IMO.
They simply listed what they already had, what they called it (version num), what
they were thinking of adding next, what they thought they would probably call that
(later version num), what had been pushed out to beyond next, what they might call
that (v1.2? 2.0? vNever?). The plan had dates expressed to the nearest month,
quarter, or year, depending on what their guess was at the time. And everytime
they changed their minds, the plan changed. Fine. That was the true status, and
the project was highly regarded.

Even less detail than that would be fine. Walter could just put up a few bullet
points regarding what he has in mind currently and change them if he changes his
mine. It would be helpful to me, and anyone else who wanted to check on D from
time to time, to be able to see such a plan right on the home page, or from a link
at the top of the home page. Most of us realize that we're getting D "for free"
and aren't making any demands. We'd love to be able to track its progress a bit
more easily, though.