DSource in the headlines? In 2014? Shocking, I know.

Since Brad is no longer an active D user, and the website has had spotty uptime lately, I've offered to take over the hosting and any maintenance.

Although opinions exist that the site should simply be shut down, I think archiving it would be a better approach. The website has historical relevance to the D community, and might be required to get ancient D code running again. For example, we could make things read-only and make it obvious on every project page that "we don't go to DSource any more". I can't exactly undertake a large redesign, but we can discuss our options.

Planet D (planet.dsource.org) is moved as well, and should continue to operate merrily. If your D blog's not there, let me know!

On Tuesday, 2 December 2014 at 22:20:29 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
> DSource in the headlines? In 2014? Shocking, I know.
>
> Since Brad is no longer an active D user, and the website has had spotty uptime lately, I've offered to take over the hosting and any maintenance.
>
> Although opinions exist that the site should simply be shut down, I think archiving it would be a better approach. The website has historical relevance to the D community, and might be required to get ancient D code running again. For example, we could make things read-only and make it obvious on every project page that "we don't go to DSource any more". I can't exactly undertake a large redesign, but we can discuss our options.
>
> Planet D (planet.dsource.org) is moved as well, and should continue to operate merrily. If your D blog's not there, let me know!

My blog is not there, but it's not pure D blog:

defenestrate.eu
defenestrate.eu/rss.html

On 12/2/2014 2:20 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
> DSource in the headlines? In 2014? Shocking, I know.
>
> Since Brad is no longer an active D user, and the website has had spotty uptime
> lately, I've offered to take over the hosting and any maintenance.
>
> Although opinions exist that the site should simply be shut down, I think
> archiving it would be a better approach. The website has historical relevance to
> the D community, and might be required to get ancient D code running again. For
> example, we could make things read-only and make it obvious on every project
> page that "we don't go to DSource any more". I can't exactly undertake a large
> redesign, but we can discuss our options.

This is good news. Keeping it available is what is most important. I wonder if the projects themselves can be migrated to github - then if someone wants to update one and add it to dub, that'd be cool.


> Planet D (planet.dsource.org) is moved as well, and should continue to operate
> merrily. If your D blog's not there, let me know!

Pretty dazz!

On Tuesday, 2 December 2014 at 23:02:32 UTC, Kiith-Sa wrote:
> [snip]
>
> My blog is not there, but it's not pure D blog:
>
> defenestrate.eu
> defenestrate.eu/rss.html

If you can add an rss feed for specific categories he could just add that. I know he's done that for some of the planet D blogs.

I'd like to see yours included. It's good reading.

On Tuesday, 2 December 2014 at 23:02:32 UTC, Kiith-Sa wrote:
> On Tuesday, 2 December 2014 at 22:20:29 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
>> DSource in the headlines? In 2014? Shocking, I know.
>>
>> Since Brad is no longer an active D user, and the website has had spotty uptime lately, I've offered to take over the hosting and any maintenance.
>>
>> Although opinions exist that the site should simply be shut down, I think archiving it would be a better approach. The website has historical relevance to the D community, and might be required to get ancient D code running again. For example, we could make things read-only and make it obvious on every project page that "we don't go to DSource any more". I can't exactly undertake a large redesign, but we can discuss our options.
>>
>> Planet D (planet.dsource.org) is moved as well, and should continue to operate merrily. If your D blog's not there, let me know!
>
> My blog is not there, but it's not pure D blog:
>
> defenestrate.eu
> defenestrate.eu/rss.html

Any way you can provide an RSS or ATOM feed for just the posts tagged D?

On 2014-12-02 23:20, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
> DSource in the headlines? In 2014? Shocking, I know.
>
> Since Brad is no longer an active D user, and the website has had spotty
> uptime lately, I've offered to take over the hosting and any maintenance.
>
> Although opinions exist that the site should simply be shut down, I
> think archiving it would be a better approach. The website has
> historical relevance to the D community, and might be required to get
> ancient D code running again. For example, we could make things
> read-only and make it obvious on every project page that "we don't go to
> DSource any more". I can't exactly undertake a large redesign, but we
> can discuss our options.

Could we put a banner (or similar) at the top of every page with some appropriate text as a warning?

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg

I think DSource should not be shut down, but instead modernised
and open for new D-based projects. We, old D programmers, just
love DSource! :)

On Wednesday, 3 December 2014 at 06:39:34 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
> On Tuesday, 2 December 2014 at 23:02:32 UTC, Kiith-Sa wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 2 December 2014 at 22:20:29 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
>>> DSource in the headlines? In 2014? Shocking, I know.
>>>
>>> Since Brad is no longer an active D user, and the website has had spotty uptime lately, I've offered to take over the hosting and any maintenance.
>>>
>>> Although opinions exist that the site should simply be shut down, I think archiving it would be a better approach. The website has historical relevance to the D community, and might be required to get ancient D code running again. For example, we could make things read-only and make it obvious on every project page that "we don't go to DSource any more". I can't exactly undertake a large redesign, but we can discuss our options.
>>>
>>> Planet D (planet.dsource.org) is moved as well, and should continue to operate merrily. If your D blog's not there, let me know!
>>
>> My blog is not there, but it's not pure D blog:
>>
>> defenestrate.eu
>> defenestrate.eu/rss.html
>
> Any way you can provide an RSS or ATOM feed for just the posts tagged D?

Don't know any way other than maybe modifying the generator I'm using, but I don't have the time to do that in near future (I know little about how RSS works/web dev in general so I'd have to spend some time learning that too).

I'm using a static site generator (Tinkerer) based on Sphinx/ReStructuredText (think Markdown on steroids), so the blog is actually a static site.

On Wed, 03 Dec 2014 09:13:12 +0000
Dejan Lekic via Digitalmars-d-announce
<digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> wrote:

> I think DSource should not be shut down, but instead modernised and open for new D-based projects. We, old D programmers, just love DSource! :)
the problem with current dsource is that keeps poping up in first google results. yesterday my mate asked me why we don't have gtk+ bindings for D. i answered "just google gtkD", he did it and the first result was dsource link, which points just to svn repo, w/o docs and such. this is disaster.

On Wednesday, 3 December 2014 at 20:24:05 UTC, ketmar via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
> On Wed, 03 Dec 2014 09:13:12 +0000
> Dejan Lekic via Digitalmars-d-announce
> <digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> wrote:
>
>> I think DSource should not be shut down, but instead modernised
>> and open for new D-based projects. We, old D programmers, just
>> love DSource! :)
> the problem with current dsource is that keeps poping up in first
> google results. yesterday my mate asked me why we don't have gtk+
> bindings for D. i answered "just google gtkD", he did it and the first
> result was dsource link, which points just to svn repo, w/o docs and
> such. this is disaster.

Erm, that was due to a misconfiguration from a last-minute change. Sorry. Fixed now.

http://www.dsource.org/projects/gtkd/