When will D1 be finished?

[Georg Wrede]

Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> Walter Bright wrote:
>> Georg Wrede wrote:
>>>  From a (go ahead, call it "shrewd" and "marketing liar", I won't 
>>> mind) perspective, _the_ newsgroup should be called D and it should 
>>> contain D1 discussions. And then there should be a less conspicuous 
>>> NG called "future releases discussions", which would be D2.
>>
>> Sounds like a good idea.
> 
> I'm all for it. My guess, however, is that this is another case of couch 
> quarterbacking that's unlikely to effect a touchdown. Today, the 
> majority of discussions on digitalmars.d is about D2 because - surprise! 
> - the stuff that people are interested in debating has mostly to do with 
> D2. You can't tell people what they should be talking about. People vote 
> with their pens. If a separate newsgroup is created for 
> digitalmars.d.next, then that won't automatically increase the quantity 
> and quality of D1-related traffic on digitalmars.d. Then the archetypal 
> noob tunes to digitalmars.d, sees a tumbleweed rolling by, and moves on.

We could rename D.learn to D and D to D.future-issues.

Then the two newsgroups would be /appropriately seeded/.