Status report, milestones, quality improvements?

[Jonas Drewsen]

On 16/03/11 16.13, Regan Heath wrote:
> 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

An improvement that would really help a lot and probably be quite simple 
to do is to let the dsource server serve the project listing as a cached 
page. Currently it takes forever to load the project listing which only 
changes once per month or so.

/Jonas