On Tuesday, 25 June 2013 at 04:34:02 UTC, QAston wrote:
This may be completely ridiculous - I'm a newcomer - please
destroy me gently.
So, the idea is to make dlang.org a fundation. Here are some
possible benefits of doing this:
-You get more people to "own" the language and therefore
seriously care about it's future development.
--Two people are not enough.
---What if someone gets hit by a bus?
---Delegate some administrative tasks to other people, so you
can focus on improving things
--Programmers are not all what's needed(the ability to write
xml parser doesn't make you a good webdev)
---Get a real webdesigner involved
---Someone to do proffessional PR and advertising
---An admin to maintain all these things
-You could start taking donations and hire some people to work
on D.
--Like for example, you could pay for a proffessional
"enterprise'y" webdesign for dlang.org.
--Companies want to donate to support tools they're using
--Funding for DSoC
-You'd get more interest from companies
--Managers run companies, not programmers, github is not a
collaboration for managers
--Increase in trust, things are formal and transparent, not
done behind the scenes
--They may want to put a part-time developer to work on a
compiler for example
---Much easier with a formal institution, where the dev would
actually have something to say and can get things done
There are obviously some issues, like the design by comitee
problem and possibly others. Still, python, perl, haskell and
others have foundations. That's probably why those are much
better @ operational proffessionalism.
Note: I don't want to do a cargo-cult here - simple registering
doesn't do magic, yet it's a valid consideration i think,
especially if it may help solving some problems pointed out by
Andrei.
