Split general into multiple threads

[Joakim via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 26 May 2016 at 21:45:56 UTC, Seb wrote:
> On Thursday, 26 May 2016 at 21:17:18 UTC, jmh530 wrote:
>> On Thursday, 26 May 2016 at 20:27:25 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> It may be that we want to create another list or two for some 
>>> specific
>>> stuff, but trying to split stuff across a bunch of groups is 
>>> going to cause
>>> its own problems. We already have enough issues with folks 
>>> posting in the
>>> wrong group as it is (e.g. Learn questions keep ending up in 
>>> the main
>>> newsgroup).
>>
>>
>> I suggest renaming Learn to be Learn/Help.
>
> Wow your feedback is great so far!
> I am glad to see that we can have a good on-topic conversation 
> :)
> So to summarize all comments so far, how about this new 
> structure:
>
> New users:
> - Learn / Help
> Community:
> - General
> - Announce
> Development:
> - Develop (dmd, druntime, phobos, dlang.org, ...)
> - Language design
> - LDC
> - GDC
>
> 1) Afaik the LDC community moved over to Gitter/Github for most 
> of their communication and I guess for them just Annouce or 
> Develop would be fine.

The ldc forum is used but low enough traffic that it could 
probably be merged in Develop.

> 2) Is Language design unique enough to be an own list?

No, I don't think so.

> 3) "Development / Develop" is a bit strange - better ideas?

Core?  Language and standard library development.

> Should we dump the top-level categories?

They tell people what to expect, makes sense for that.

> 4) If automated bot lists should continue to exist, the should 
> be apropriately marked

Get rid of them, I'm sure github has feeds they can subscribe to 
instead.