Andrei Alexandrescu, el 11 de mayo a las 17:27 me escribiste: > Walter Bright wrote: > >Georg Wrede wrote: > >> From a (go ahead, call it "shrewd" and "marketing liar", I won't mind) > >>perspective, _the_ newsgroup should be called D and it should contain D1 > >>discussions. And then there should be a less conspicuous NG called "future > >>releases discussions", which would be D2. > >Sounds like a good idea. > > I'm all for it. My guess, however, is that this is another case of couch > quarterbacking that's unlikely to effect a touchdown. Today, the majority of > discussions on digitalmars.d is about D2 because - surprise! - the stuff that > people are interested in debating has mostly to do with D2. You can't tell
This is because D1 is frozen. If there would be a D1.1, D1.2, etc. series, my guess is people would be interested in debating about it. But there is not much to debate about D1 right now, unfortunately. > people what they should be talking about. People vote with their pens. If a > separate newsgroup is created for digitalmars.d.next, then that won't > automatically increase the quantity and quality of D1-related traffic on > digitalmars.d. Then the archetypal noob tunes to digitalmars.d, sees a > tumbleweed rolling by, and moves on. A D1 NG will be a bug-reporting NG by definition because right now D1 is not allowed to evolve. But I think it could be of help for people to better understand that D2 is in development. Adding a more visible indication that D2 is in development in the website would be helpful too (right now the only place I see something about it is in the download page, where it says D2 is alpha, but I you go to the homepage and jump into the documentation, you never get a hint that D2 is experimental). -- Leandro Lucarella (luca) | Blog colectivo: http://www.mazziblog.com.ar/blog/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- GPG Key: 5F5A8D05 (F8CD F9A7 BF00 5431 4145 104C 949E BFB6 5F5A 8D05) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------