Why I'm hesitating to switch to D

[James Fisher]

On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 10:39 PM, Nick Sabalausky <a at a.a> wrote:
>
> The main problem with D is that there's too many people with their lists
> about what's wrong with D, and not enough willing to actually jump in and
> help out. I'm sorry if I come across a bit harsh, but we seriously get
> another one of these "What's wrong with D" lists every few weeks (and each
> one seems more out-of-date than the last) and hardly any of the people
> writing them have ever actually made any real contributions besides just
> complaints. If you're going to help out, then fantastic, and welcome
> aboard!
> But if not, then please understand that we already have more volunteer
> supervisors than we need, so that sort of thing gets very frustrating for
> those of us dedicating our own time and effort for free to actually
> accomplish all the goals.
>

Well, sure I'm willing to help.  The reason I started out like this was to
gauge whether these problems were actually seen to be problems by the
community -- you get a lot of projects that are so inward-facing that
suggestions that it should be otherwise are taken as insults.

While my coding abilities aren't bad, I figure that's not what I'm best
helping with here.  Key things I'd suggest I could help with are:

   - A simple D brand identity.  Nothing complex, just an official
   pronouncement that "this is our logo/logotype, this is our color palette,
   these are the one or two fonts we use, here's how we describe ourselves,
   here are some simple guidelines on how to build a D-branded site/document".
    This could be hashed out and maintained in a small GH repo.
   - Applying that to d-programming-language.org.
   - Coming up with a long list of D community
   sites/wikis/tutorials/howtos/documentation/link lists.  Identifying projects
   that overlap domains and drumming up support for these to be merged into the
   most popular of them or into d-programming-language.org.  **I do think
   this is possible!**
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