Where Is THE Hype?

[Kyle Furlong]

Glen Perkins wrote:
> 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.
> 

digitalmars.com/d needs a couple things. Like Glen said, a status 
section, with whatever development schedule is current. Also guarantees 
that the server wont break when Dugg/Slashdotted on 1.0 release.