Move VisualD to github/d-programming-language ?

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 9/8/13 9:32 PM, Manu wrote:
> On 8 September 2013 05:04, Walter Bright <newshound2 at digitalmars.com
> <mailto:newshound2 at digitalmars.com>> wrote:
>
>     Recent threads here have made it pretty clear that VisualD is a
>     critical piece of D infrastructure. (VisualD integrated D usage into
>     Microsoft Visual Studio.)
>
>     Andrei, myself and Rainer (VisualD's champion) are all in agreement
>     on this.
>
>     What do you think?
>
>
> How about the bugs?
> When I made the suggestion, other the obvious endorsement for the
> project, I imagined the most significant outcome would be making
> Visual-D's bug's first-class bugs as well.
> Giving good visibility of IDE bugs to all contributors gives the whole
> community a good sense of the health of this aspect of the ecosystem,
> even of they don't contribute to the IDE integration themselves...

I think we should use the D mainline bug flow for VisualD, effectively 
vaulting VisualD into a first-class component of the D language.

This opens the door to other projects as well - e.g. emacs and vim 
integration helpers.


Andrei