On the origins of github.com/D-Programming-Language

[Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d]

On 4/9/16 5:44 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 4/9/2016 12:04 PM, Seb wrote:
>> On Saturday, 9 April 2016 at 03:48:27 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>>> On 4/8/2016 5:06 PM, Brad Anderson wrote:
>>>> By "back then" I mean in 2011[1]. The original domain was
>>>> d-programming-language.org and having the github organization match
>>>> made sense.
>>>>
>>>> http://forum.dlang.org/post/jc0asl$sms$1@digitalmars.com
>>>
>>> Right, and the original reason for the long form name was how google
>>> indexed
>>> things.
>>
>> Okay - so this long name is purely due to historic reasons.
>> How about we move forward and change it to `d-lang`? So that the name
>> and domain
>> match again :)
>> I am happy to push this, contact the Github support and change links.
>>
>> Is someone of the core team interested in helping this move?
>> As mentioned redirects for the repos are automatically created, so the
>> web page
>> and git automagically continue to work.
>> We could fix a specific date & time, just in case something goes wrong.
>
> I'm willing to go forward with that if there's a swell of support for
> it. But for consistency's sake it should be dlang, not d-lang.

I think this would be a good thing to do for consistency, but not 
critical. d-programming-langauge is not ambiguous. If it can be made to 
work so both "groups" point at the same place, we should attempt at some 
point.

A couple things though -- we have a lot of automation surrounding 
github. We should make sure the major players have their input before 
attempting this. I'm thinking Brad and Vladimir? Also, I think an owner 
of the github group needs to be pulling the trigger too, so I'm not sure 
how much we can offload this duty to Seb.

-Steve