DIP75 - Release Process

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 3/11/15 1:00 AM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
> On Wednesday, 11 March 2015 at 07:32:48 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> It doesn't seem so to me. You find easy weaknesses in my vision and
>> pump on them instead of working on making it stronger. That's the easy
>> "but that business won't work, and here are the reasons why" approach.
>> The harder part is finding ways to make it work by overcoming its
>> weaknesses.
>
> Here is a counter-proposal:
>
> 1. Add Dub to D.
>
> 2. Add a "web development" link in the sidebar, which simply links to
> vibed.org.
>
> 3. Add an example on the front page on how to create a simple web
> server. It needs to list only main.d and package.json, and the dub
> command line to build it. A package.json will be needed for non-trivial
> things anyway, so might as well get that out of the way anyway.
>
> 4. Unite the Vibe.d forum with forum.dlang.org. I should be able to do
> this by making forum.dlang.org connect to it via NNTP.
>
> I think this will achieve much of your goal without the drawbacks.

These are good steps to take. If after taking them we're in a good 
place, we can stop there. -- Andrei