On Thursday, 26 May 2016 at 17:07:54 UTC, Seb wrote:
I think we all agree that general is having to much traffic and
according to CyberShadow [1] this again is just an approval
issue, however I expect this a bit controversial, so please no
OT! Only other category proposals.
I disagree. You don't have to read every thread, I certainly
don't.
Proposed categories:
- DMD
- DRuntime
- Phobos
Those forums already exist and get no traffic now, other than
automated notices.
- Language design (or Idea pool)
I guess you could combine all four of these into a Development
forum and see what happens? For example, Andrei's RCStr thread
would probably go there.
- D Foundation + resources
Sure?
- Events
Announce, which btw people routinely have to be told about in
General.
- Other (formerly known as General)
Bad idea, the name General is actually a good catch-all, which is
why it's the most trafficked. Whatever scheme is chosen, what's
most important is that the core team actually uses it that way.
The fact that threads like RCStr and the one about floating point
are regularly posted in General by the language architects and
not in the existing dmd/phobos forums tells everyone else those
forums are a joke.
Of course, maybe they're just being pragmatic, because General
gets the most eyeballs. But that doesn't seem to imply they see
a problem with everything being in General.
I want to stress that whatever categories we pick, we have to
adapt them anyways if we realize that something is noisy again
or too silent.
https://github.com/CyberShadow/DFeed/issues/66
Or we could just go by topic and not bother with separate forums
too, as it has largely failed so far.
