DUB - call to arms

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On Wednesday, 17 April 2019 at 08:06:13 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
> On Wed, 2019-04-17 at 03:48 -0400, Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) 
> via
> Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> 
> […]
>> 
>> Oh, don't get me wrong, there's a whole BUNCH of things I'd 
>> like to
>> see
>> on this particular list, and that definitely includes your
>> suggestion. I
>> left it at "not necessarily limited to..." for good reason ;)
> […]
>
> The problem here is that people are having lots of ideas on 
> this email list, but no-one is choosing to collate them into a 
> an actual "call to action". As ever in an ever extending email 
> thread the energy to do something within the D community 
> dissipates and nothing ends up happening.
>
> Perhaps we should make the hack day at DConf 2019 "get 
> something actually moving on this" day.
>
> Or perhaps people will continue to say stuff on very long email 
> threads
> and end up doing nothing. This is the third such thread on Dub 
> I can
> remember, the previous two ended up with no  outcomes other 
> than lots
> of opinions in very long email threads.

The people who are actually going to do the work should setup a 
private group somewhere. These sprawling threads on the public 
newsgroup dilute not just the vision but also the motivation.