ANNOUNCEMENT: GNU-D opens up shop

[Lars Ivar Igesund]

Gabe McArthur wrote:

> You may remember me from another post I made a couple of days ago on the
> main D thread site, regarding the state of the libraries and the focus of
> the language. I read your responses -- some were positive, others less so
> -- and I sat around
> and thought carefully about what everyone had to say.  I was concerned
> that I had really made myself look like a fool, but then I thought, if you
> don't risk
> looking like a fool, then you haven't really tried to do anything.  I was
> also afraid that I had put people off by my (perhaps overly) stringent
> critiques, or that people wouldn't be interested in joining a group
> devoted to the ideals of
> the GNU.  But, as I was reading through the internet on the differenes
> between 'free' and 'open-source' software, I came across an article by
> Richard Stallman
> at http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/opensources/book/stallman.html.  From
> reading that article, I've come to the conclusion that somebody needs to
> step up to the plate and provide those of us in the community who like D,
> a place to organize
> and develop free solutions to D's problems.  I thought that I might be one
> of the first of those people.
> 
> So, here it is!  I've created the basic (and quite ugly) site for the new
> gnu-d.org site.  I hope to have a lot of people participating in this new
> movement, so I'll be creating Wikis, Trac sites for GNU-D projects
> (including the GDC, I think), SVN annonymous access for checkouts,
> customizable project
> homepages, etc.  As people become involved, of course, they will be given
> check-in/versioning rights to repositories and management over their own
> project
> sites.  I will be putting up a wiki in the next couple of days outlining
> what I
> feel our first steps should be.  For instance, as to the issue of
> liscenses, I think it best to use the LGPL for the majority of our
> libraries and the GPL for our main projects (gdc, a build mechanism, an
> IDE).
> 
> If you have something that you'd like to email me about, please do so:
> gnu.for.d
> AT gmail.com.  I look forward to working with the community to make
> building, maintaining, and working with D a joy that everyone can share
> in.
> 
> 'If you organize it...they will come'
> 
> Salud!
> Gabe McArthur

DSource do currently have forums, svn and Trac. Oh, and quite a few existing
projects. And Brad is a really great guy.

-- 
Lars Ivar Igesund
blog at http://larsivi.net
DSource & #D: larsivi