Awesome-D, and an invitation to you awesome guys

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On Sunday, 10 August 2014 at 09:28:48 UTC, Puming wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm maintaining this awesome-d list similar to other 
> awesome-stuff lists on github, for keeping a hook on 
> interesting D related links.
>
> https://github.com/zhaopuming/awesome-d
>
> At first it was only for my personal use, but recently I got 
> some ideas about it that could potentially contribute to the 
> community, so here I am making this little announcement and 
> invating all you awesome guys to help me :-)
>
> The ideas are:
>
> 1. Awesome-People list that made D awesome.
> 2. A relation network on github projects
>
> First one is about the awesome people, that is you guys. I've 
> been lurking in this forum for many years (dating back to D1 
> days). But only recently, after watching the great dconf 
> videos, have I realized that it is the awesome people that 
> makes the language/ecosystem awesome. I want to know you. And I 
> think the new comers of D would also like to know you, each one 
> of you great guys who made a library/tool that make their 
> programming life a better place.
>
> For lack of information and for the respect of privacy, 
> currently I have only listed Walter and Andrei on the list, 
> <https://github.com/zhaopuming/awesome-d#people>. But I'd 
> really like to know about other people here, like kenji the 
> great bug killing machie always in the shadow, or bearophile 
> who studied an endless list of languages and exploded bugzilla, 
> and many other.
>
> For privacy, I think it's best that only the descriptions 
> provided by people themselves or really related people should 
> be allowed, or at least a permission is acquired by the person. 
> (Sorry Walter and Andrei, I haven't asked for your permissions. 
> But you're the stars and public faces here :-), privacy for you 
> is a past).
>
> I think people would be interesting to know who you are, what 
> have you done, what do you think about D and it's future, what 
> are you interesting, etc. Maybe an interview is a better 
> option, but I don't know how to do that here. Do you guys have 
> any ideas?
>
> For the second stuff, after I made the awesome-d list, the 
> awesome-awesome list maintainer made a pull request to add mine 
> to his list and connect. Then I found a list of awesome-c, 
> awesome-clojure, and all other awesome lists:
>
> https://github.com/bayandin/awesome-awesomeness
>
> which is very interesting and a good way to find information.
>
> So the similar idea came to me: Why don't try to build a 
> network about D stuff? D libs are scattered even in github--you 
> don't have a good way to search for the libs you're interested 
> in.
>
> Now we have code.dlang.org, but it is also a one way list. 
> Ideally it would be two way: if a person bumped into one of the 
> D projects, and in the project there is a link that says 
> "enlisted on code.dlang.org", then he can easily go to 
> code.dlang.org and see what other interesting, related projects 
> their are.
> This is very similar to what "for me on github" does, it makes 
> a network.
>
> Of couse, what I want to have is also "enlisted on awesome-d". 
> Do you project maintainers think it's good?
>
> One last request for help: You might noticed that I'm not a 
> native english speaker, so there are many grammar or style 
> problems in the awesome-d list, if you find any, please help me 
> fix it.
>
> Best Regards.
>
> Puming

I like the idea to collect useful links, but more useful to 
collect all info on single portal. Integrate wiki, dlang, 
code.dlang.org, bugtracker, add some github integration via its 
api - dreams, the only dreams.