dsource.org

[Justin C Calvarese via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, 16 August 2014 at 03:20:20 UTC, Mike wrote:
> I'm wondering if someone could give me a historical perspective 
> on dsource.org:  * What is (was) it?
> * Is it still being maintained, or does it exist simply for 
> historical reasons?
> * Is there material on dsource.org that this community would 
> like migrated to wiki.dlang.org?
> * Is there any desire to retire it?
>
> I found quite a bit of valuable learning material at 
> http://www.dsource.org/projects/tutorials/wiki#TheTutorialsProject.
>  I've been studying D for about 9 months, and this is the first 
> time I've seen it.
>
> I'm wondering, if I verify the examples and such still compile 
> and are relevant, would this community like it migrated to 
> wiki.dlang.org?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mike

The guy who ran dsource, Brad, disappeared from the D scene quite 
a while ago. I expect he could be reached via e-mail if the 
community reaches consensus about what changes we want for 
dsource. Due to my involvement with the tutorial project in the 
early days, I might still have a few minor superpowers with my 
"administratorish" log-in. (If someone has trouble getting their 
dsource account activated, I might be able to help out.)

I'd hate to see the whole site shut down abruptly since I suspect 
there's still some useful information in a few of the SVN 
repositories and some of the historical forum content is 
interesting to me. I know some of the code has been migrated to 
GitHub, but I believe most of the dsource material only exists on 
dsource.

A while back, I edited some project pages for projects that 
seemed abandoned to alert whoever came to that page of the 
abandoned status, but it's probably been several years since I 
did much of that.

-- jcc7