Split general into multiple threads

[ZombineDev via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 29 May 2016 at 11:35:12 UTC, Seb wrote:
> On Sunday, 29 May 2016 at 11:28:05 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
>> On 05/26/2016 08:07 PM, Seb wrote:
>>> I think we all agree that general is having to much traffic 
>>> and according to CyberShadow [1] this again is just an 
>>> approval issue, however I expect this a bit controversial, so 
>>> please no OT! Only other category proposals.
>>> 
>>> Proposed categories:
>>> 
>>> - DMD
>>> - DRuntime
>>> - Phobos
>>> - Language design (or Idea pool)
>>> - D Foundation + resources
>>> - Events
>>> - Other (formerly known as General)
>>> 
>>> I want to stress that whatever categories we pick, we have to 
>>> adapt them anyways if we realize that something is noisy 
>>> again or too silent.
>>> 
>>> https://github.com/CyberShadow/DFeed/issues/66
>>
>> Without moderators to move mismatching topic between groups 
>> any more fine grained separation will do more harm than good. 
>> NG in its current form is simply not a good tool for focused 
>> technical discussion and won't be. "Get rid of OT" idea sounds 
>> like mockery to anyone who doesn't spend his entire lifetime 
>> posting here because 90+% of NG posts are absolutely 
>> irrelevant.
>
> To avoid confusion the proposal is to reduce the number of 
> forums from 14 (currently) to 7. So we are halfing the number 
> and are _not_ introducing more fine grained separation. Instead 
> the idea was rearange the forums to sth. like this:
>
> New users:
> - Learn / Help
> Community:
> - General
> - Annouce (Official annoucements)
> - Broadcast
> Development:
> - Core (Language and standard library development)
> - GDC
> - Third-party (Dub universe)

I like this list better than the current, but with one change: 
taking LDC out of core and renaming it to LDC and LLVM so other D 
projects that leverage LLVM can be hosted there (e.g. SDC, 
Calypso, CPP2D, etc) and to be on par with GDC.