Lifetime study group

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 10/28/2015 01:41 PM, Dejan Lekic wrote:
> I suggest we do not try to reinvent the wheel.
> Simply take a look how existing, large communities do this kind of work.
>
> Example: https://jcp.org/en/jsr/all
>
> For each large feature (a good example in the D case would be pattern
> matching, allocators, reference counting, additional garbage collectors,
> etc) a special working group should be formed. With initial working
> group owner who manages the group (adds other owners, collaborators, or
> some other types of users). Each group would work at own pace until they
> come up with a good design, and after that the group does the
> implementation as well. Each group would have own repository where they
> commit their work. Organising such groups can be uniform (something I
> think is better), or each group organises itself.
>
> Naturally, it is probably a full-time job for someone to coordinate with
> groups, does overall monitoring, etc.
>
> Each group can, and probably will, gain interest of the academic world,
> something we should encourage, and help PhD/MSc students jump in
> relevant groups to the benefits of both.
>
> Also, each working group can be tied to a GSoC project, mentored by
> people from the community.
>
> This will add an extra level of seriousness to the D project as I prefer
> to call it.

Yup, that's the plan and dlang-study is the first step of it. -- Andre