Dev. Collaboration

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On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 06:47:21 UTC, simendsjo wrote:
> On 05/27/2014 02:12 AM, chuck wrote:
>> Would anyone be interested in a collaboration forum? I am 
>> thinking of
>> starting one on Proboards to aid in development/collaboration 
>> between
>> developers on D and libraries/bindings. Reading through the 
>> posts, I
>> have seen that several people have created small projects that 
>> do the
>> same thing (I have seen multiple for MySql alone, none of 
>> which has
>> really gained true traction).
>> 
>> So here is what I propose:
>> 1) The forum will be host different aspects of development
>> (Database/bindings, Phobos development, networking tools, 
>> etc.).
>> 
>> 2) Form dev. committees to fill the most useful tasks in the 
>> group of
>> choice. For example, focusing on doing one thing quickly and 
>> sustainably
>> rather than burning out creating a project alone that will be 
>> difficult
>> to maintain afterwords.
>> 
>> 3) This should help increase the number of code examples, 
>> increasing the
>> visibility of D to anyone interested. Hopefully, this will 
>> also increase
>> the community.
>
> I think it's a great idea - DETF (D Engineering Task Force).
> For this to succeed, I think connecting to existing 
> communication
> channels is very important. This means NNTP/mailing list, 
> github,
> auto-tester, dub, wiki (with DIPS) etc etc.
> Setting up some new PHP forums will only split the community.

I like Andrej initiative much more 
(http://forum.dlang.org/post/mailman.726.1400095941.2907.digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com). 
Self-organized smaller groups of developers focused on specific 
domains of application.