The D AGM

[Johan Coder]

On Monday, 13 May 2019 at 10:02:16 UTC, Robert Schadek wrote:
> On Monday, 13 May 2019 at 09:11:51 UTC, Bastiaan Veelo wrote:
>>
>> The vision documents have not been working very well. The 
>> vision was good, but they were not a very good indication of 
>> where the language is going and what is being worked on and 
>> how. One purpose of the AGM is that its records (I believe 
>> that Mike will work on those) are hoped to replace the vision 
>> documents as a more accurate and useful indication of where D 
>> is going, what its vitality is etc. As this was the first AGM 
>> in this form, I don't find it surprising that there are things 
>> to improve upon. I think it worked out pretty well, and want 
>> to thank Nicholas for his initiative. I think having a public 
>> AGM helps a lot to reach a more harmonious and unified working 
>> community. Otherwise these topics are discussed/complained 
>> about in the corridors within their respective bubbles where 
>> they don't achieve much. To all those criticising the agenda: 
>> it has been out there for comments for a long time, but I dont 
>> think Nicholas has received much feedback.
>>
>> Bastiaan.
>
> A couple of started to move the vision document into the issue 
> tracker of this
> https://github.com/dlang/projects github project. We also 
> created a couple of major milestones, individual issues should 
> be associated with.
>
> The idea here is that, we use the same tools we manage 
> programming languages with for the english language.
> If you think about it, what is a vision document. I would say 
> it is a program written in a very ambiguous programming 
> language. So why not use the same tool we all already know?
>
> Next years AGM agenda will then be trivial to prepare.

Very good idea, thank you.