[dox] What should we do with dsource?

[Mike Parker]

On Wednesday, 23 October 2013 at 01:24:26 UTC, Jesse Phillips 
wrote:
>
> Well, I think dsource should survive in some capacity due to 
> the reasons already given. Depending on what taking it over 
> entails, I could probably give it a try. With more permissions 
> the homepage could be cleaned up. I'm not going to be the most 
> actionable on it, but probably can be a gateway into accepting 
> new maintainers.

My thinking of what this should entail:

1) take over the dsource.org domain and point it to a new server
2) the new site should provide free forums just as the current 
one does, but nothing more.
3) existing projects still using the forums at the current site 
should be migrated.
4) existing projects still actively maintaining a subversion 
repository at the current site should be encouraged to move to 
another scc hosting solution of their choice (github, bitbucket, 
whatever).
5) the new site should maintain a searchable registry of all 
known open source D projects (just a link and a blurb), 
regardless of whether or not the project uses the forum.

In other words, a complete overhaul. Of course, the few people 
still using dsource would need to agree to this. Even if they 
don't, I think this sort of site should exist. It would be a 
centralized location for all D projects. I would much prefer it 
to be under the dsource.org domain, since then all of the dead 
projects there will eventually fall off of the search engines. 
Plus, "dsource" still makes sense, as it can then can be used 
solely in the sense of "the source for D projects" (I've always 
seen it as having a dual meaning, as "source for D" and "D source 
code").

I'd be willing to pay for a basic Linode instance, or pitch-in 
for a more expensive one. I'd also be willing to donate a few 
hours a week to maintenance in whatever capacity I could.