Dev. Collaboration

[simendsjo via Digitalmars-d]

On 05/27/2014 02:12 AM, chuck wrote:
> Would anyone be interested in a collaboration forum? I am thinking of
> starting one on Proboards to aid in development/collaboration between
> developers on D and libraries/bindings. Reading through the posts, I
> have seen that several people have created small projects that do the
> same thing (I have seen multiple for MySql alone, none of which has
> really gained true traction).
> 
> So here is what I propose:
> 1) The forum will be host different aspects of development
> (Database/bindings, Phobos development, networking tools, etc.).
> 
> 2) Form dev. committees to fill the most useful tasks in the group of
> choice. For example, focusing on doing one thing quickly and sustainably
> rather than burning out creating a project alone that will be difficult
> to maintain afterwords.
> 
> 3) This should help increase the number of code examples, increasing the
> visibility of D to anyone interested. Hopefully, this will also increase
> the community.

I think it's a great idea - DETF (D Engineering Task Force).
For this to succeed, I think connecting to existing communication
channels is very important. This means NNTP/mailing list, github,
auto-tester, dub, wiki (with DIPS) etc etc.
Setting up some new PHP forums will only split the community.