Hi all, I am very happy to be the first to announce this here:

1500 D packages available via DUB at code.dlang.org !

Now as the pure volume of solutions gets more and more impressive,
we have to find better ways to enhance quality and stability.

The "Score" indicator is a very good step.
A field, probably at first just manually set by the owner, giving latest tested dmd version might give a good way to filter for well maintained packages.

My second wish is to start a general effort to adopt several packages by D Foundation to ensure they keep updated.

So a big "Thank You", to all the great people building D and its ecosystem!

On Thursday, 7 February 2019 at 10:14:18 UTC, Martin Tschierschke wrote:
> Hi all, I am very happy to be the first to announce this here:
>
> 1500 D packages available via DUB at code.dlang.org !
>
> Now as the pure volume of solutions gets more and more impressive,
> we have to find better ways to enhance quality and stability.
>
> The "Score" indicator is a very good step.
> A field, probably at first just manually set by the owner, giving latest tested dmd version might give a good way to filter for well maintained packages.
>
> My second wish is to start a general effort to adopt several packages by D Foundation to ensure they keep updated.
>
> So a big "Thank You", to all the great people building D and its ecosystem!

Good news indeed. I remember when dub had very few packages...now things are really getting better.

On Thursday, 7 February 2019 at 10:14:18 UTC, Martin Tschierschke wrote:
> Hi all, I am very happy to be the first to announce this here:
>
> 1500 D packages available via DUB at code.dlang.org !

Great!

> Now as the pure volume of solutions gets more and more impressive,
> we have to find better ways to enhance quality and stability.
>
> The "Score" indicator is a very good step.
> A field, probably at first just manually set by the owner, giving latest tested dmd version might give a good way to filter for well maintained packages.
>
> My second wish is to start a general effort to adopt several packages by D Foundation to ensure they keep updated.

What was the word on the autotester (or similar) testing popular packages as part of the test suite?

On Thursday, 7 February 2019 at 16:40:08 UTC, Anonymouse wrote:
>
> What was the word on the autotester (or similar) testing popular packages as part of the test suite?

This is been done since more than a year now for the ~50 most popular packages: https://buildkite.com/dlang

In my opinion this is one of the main reasons why the last releases were so successful (=almost no regressions).

On Thu, Feb 07, 2019 at 05:06:09PM +0000, Seb via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
> On Thursday, 7 February 2019 at 16:40:08 UTC, Anonymouse wrote:
> > 
> > What was the word on the autotester (or similar) testing popular
> > packages as part of the test suite?
> 
> This is been done since more than a year now for the ~50 most popular packages: https://buildkite.com/dlang
> 
> In my opinion this is one of the main reasons why the last releases were so successful (=almost no regressions).

That's awesome. This is the way to go.  Congrats to everyone who helped pull this off.


T

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On Thursday, 7 February 2019 at 18:02:21 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 07, 2019 at 05:06:09PM +0000, Seb via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
>> On Thursday, 7 February 2019 at 16:40:08 UTC, Anonymouse wrote:
>> > 
>> > What was the word on the autotester (or similar) testing popular
>> > packages as part of the test suite?
>> 
>> This is been done since more than a year now for the ~50 most popular packages: https://buildkite.com/dlang
>> 
>> In my opinion this is one of the main reasons why the last releases were so successful (=almost no regressions).
>
> That's awesome. This is the way to go.  Congrats to everyone who helped pull this off.
>
>
> T

Agreed! This is a really nice bit of work that's come out of the D ecosystem.