Split general into multiple threads

[Seb via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 26 May 2016 at 23:03:46 UTC, Joakim wrote:
> 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:
>>>
>>>> [...]
>>>
>>>
>>> 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.

+1

>> 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.

Of course - and a lot more features ;-)

https://github.com/dlang/dmd/commits/master.atom
https://github.com/dlang/dmd/releases.atom
https://developer.github.com/v3/activity/feeds/

So yet another summary:

New users:
- Learn / Help
Community:
- General
- Annouce (Official annoucements)
- Broadcast
Development:
- Core (Language and standard library development)
- GDC