Status report, milestones, quality improvements?

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Jonas Drewsen" <jdrewsen at nospam.com> wrote in message 
news:ilpu9l$1diq$1 at digitalmars.com...
> On 16/03/11 02.13, jasonw wrote:
>> A lot of work is going on around D. However I can't really fit the pieces 
>> together to see how everything works.
>>
>> Bad quality
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>> One problem is the large amount of obsolete data ( 
>> http://www.dsource.org/projects/dmdfe )
>>
>> Dsource is The place for D projects. The problem with dsource is if 
>> you're a serious professional and need professional quality libraries and 
>> tools, dsource does nothing in the way of supporting these types of 
>> users. The sections are filled with small hobby projects such as 
>> http://www.dsource.org/projects/libcalc. What I'm looking for is somehing 
>> that emphasizes the names of "important" projects. For example standard 
>> parallel/concurrency/server/socket/vfs libraries are a first class 
>> priority. It takes a day to browse through the list of mediocre crap.
>
> Actually I once contacted the admin of dsource because I had the same 
> concerns as you have. He gave me svn access to the code of the dsource 
> site pretty quickly for me to fix stuff (or the a new version of it he was 
> working on).
>
> Unfortunately I never got around to submitting anything back. But I'm sure 
> that he will be just as welcoming to you I you offer your help :)
>

I don't mean to badmouth him, and this definitely isn't intended as anything 
against him. But I've helped him out getting the new version of dsource 
ready, and as far as I can tell, there really isn't much left to do, but he 
just hasn't had the time to finally get it up. And that was months ago. A 
while back I offered to help out with whatever is left, and he was receptive 
to it, but then I didn't hear back from him again. Of course, that may very 
well have just been a lost email, or a miscommunication, or something. Maybe 
I'll email him again.