Walter Bright wrote:
There's some overlap, but I think they serve entirely different
purposes. D.announce is for any announcements of interest to D
programmers, D.marketplace is for commercial things - products and
services to buy and sell. Think of it like the 'classified' section of
the newspaper.
Overlap is what causes categories to loose there importance. The
categories should clearly draw the line in either definition, quantity
of content, or both.
Currently we have "D" for all kinds of things:
D language.
Dmd compiler.
Ideas.
Blog posts.
Announcements has such low traffic that a split is not really necessary
at the moment.
The newsgroups could possibly be restructured though for example:
D lang. (language spec & proposals)
D compilers. (dmd, gdc, ldc & others)
D dev tools. (debugger, ide & others)
D gui tool kit. (or maybe all non standard libraries?).
D bugs.
D annoucements.
D standard libs (old dtl + phobos & tango talk).
D OT (the kind of coffee lounge. must remain of interest to d
programmers. for example: the sort of posts berophile finds on the
development of other languages).
I don't know anything of the implementation of news groups. Is it at all
easy to just move posts in the same way as can be done through a web
message board forum?
