How do we make dub more useful?

[cym13 via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, 14 January 2017 at 11:02:51 UTC, Joakim wrote:
> There were two recent posts by a new Rust user about how he's 
> finding that language, that got a lot of attention on their 
> reddit.  In the latter post, he mentions D as a competitor:
>
> http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=7303
>
> Worth reading because we have similar issues with the dub 
> registry, that Sönke is starting to grappling with:
>
> http://forum.dlang.org/post/o4mi9d$14po$1@digitalmars.com
>
> I really like the filtering now at the top of the package 
> registry at http://code.dlang.org, allowing you to drill down 
> on the kind of package you're looking for.  However, I notice 
> that 100+ packages are not in the application or library list, 
> as the totals from those two top-level categories don't add up 
> to the reported uncategorized total.
>
> It would be good if registered users could add ratings and 
> reviews too, similar to mobile app stores, as where else can we 
> publicly share our opinions about a particular package?  Those 
> would make good feedback for package authors too.

The one thing I miss is a global configuration file. There is one 
that exist (~/.dub/settings.json) but you can't AFAIK define 
build configurations or other useful configs in it.

I generally want to build things with "-O -inline" but not 
-release. No default build in dub allows that and editing each 
projects that I try to add it is not ok for me.