Why I'm hesitating to switch to D

[David Gileadi]

On 6/29/11 2:02 AM, James Fisher wrote:
> 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     one seems more out-of-date than the last) and hardly any of the people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
>       <http://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
>       <http://d-programming-language.org>.  **I do think this is possible!**

While I'm just a volunteer, based on my experience I believe that 
contributions in these areas would be welcomed and very useful.