Status report, milestones, quality improvements?

Mike James foo at bar.com
Wed Mar 16 08:27:03 PDT 2011


"Regan Heath" <regan at netmail.co.nz> wrote in message 
news:op.vsfy88k954xghj at puck.auriga.bhead.co.uk...
> On Wed, 16 Mar 2011 01:13:33 -0000, jasonw <user at webmails.org> wrote:
>
>> One problem is the large amount of obsolete data ( 
>> http://www.dsource.org/projects/dmdfe )
>>
>> Dsource is The place for D projects. The problem with dsource is if 
>> you're a serious professional and need professional quality libraries 
>> and tools, dsource does nothing in the way of supporting these types of 
>> users. The sections are filled with small hobby projects such as 
>> http://www.dsource.org/projects/libcalc. What I'm looking for is 
>> somehing that emphasizes the names of "important" projects. For example 
>> standard parallel/concurrency/server/socket/vfs libraries are a first 
>> class priority. It takes a day to browse through the list of mediocre 
>> crap.
>
> I was browsing dsource the other day and I wanted to be able to sort 
> projects by last update date or something, to find the ones which were 
> being currently maintained.  It would certainly be useful to sort by a 
> category like [alpha] [beta] [stable] etc as well.  I think dsource is the 
> correct place to put any/all of our 'crap' but it just needs to be easier 
> to sort and find the things you're interested in, at any one time.  i.e. 
> what if you were looking for a project to lend a hand to, no use finding 
> one which is pretty much [stable] and complete.
>
> R

The front page of dsource should have 5-10 useful, complete and tested 
projects highlighted. All the dross and projects never completed (or the 
'wishful thinking' projects that were never even started) should be 
relegated deep.

The front page should be there to introduce, and intice, the prospective D 
user to some useful libraries...

-=mike=-



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