On Thursday, 24 October 2013 at 05:13:55 UTC, Jesse Phillips wrote:
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> I'd rather start with more permissions to update the homepage.

So for the time being shall we do just that?  Something along the lines of Dicebot's suggestion is good as at least a temporary solution (not permanent or comprehensive unless it's on EVERY page).

If you're willing, I'll tell Brad to get in touch with you and Mike Parker, and let things proceed from there.

-Wyatt

On Wednesday, 23 October 2013 at 05:21:19 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
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> My thinking of what this should entail:
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> 1) take over the dsource.org domain and point it to a new server
> 2) the new site should provide free forums just as the current one does, but nothing more.
> 3) existing projects still using the forums at the current site should be migrated.
> 4) existing projects still actively maintaining a subversion repository at the current site should be encouraged to move to another scc hosting solution of their choice (github, bitbucket, whatever).
> 5) the new site should maintain a searchable registry of all known open source D projects (just a link and a blurb), regardless of whether or not the project uses the forum.
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Good medium/long-term plan.  For the moment, let's see about cleaning up what we've already got, but I like a lot of this.

> In other words, a complete overhaul. Of course, the few people still using dsource would need to agree to this. Even if they don't, I think this sort of site should exist. It would be a centralized location for all D projects. I would much prefer it to be under the dsource.org domain, since then all of the dead projects there will eventually fall off of the search engines.

This is good, with the caveat that we should avoid inconveniencing the people already there within reason. So in that direction, I'd advocate for Cool URIs [0]-- as few page addresses should change as possible. (Some things are more sacred than others.  Hosted project landing pages are very important, but the stuff in the robots.txt is much less likely to be externally linked.)

Per a suggestion above, I think it'd be fine to link them from an "archive" or "mothballed" page or something (for things that are no longer active).  Of course,

> I'd be willing to pay for a basic Linode instance, or pitch-in for a more expensive one.

Appreciated, but hold that thought for now; it may be unnecessary.

> I'd also be willing to donate a few hours a week to maintenance in whatever capacity I could.

This, on the other hand, will probably be very welcome.

-Wyatt

[0] http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI.html

On Thursday, 24 October 2013 at 12:56:53 UTC, Wyatt wrote:
> Good medium/long-term plan.  For the moment, let's see about cleaning up what we've already got, but I like a lot of this.

I also wanted to mention that this is long-term development plan for dub registry too (at least Sonke has expressed certain interest in it in private mail discussion), so lets try to avoid effort duplication :)

On Thursday, 24 October 2013 at 13:16:15 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
> On Thursday, 24 October 2013 at 12:56:53 UTC, Wyatt wrote:
>> Good medium/long-term plan.  For the moment, let's see about cleaning up what we've already got, but I like a lot of this.
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> I also wanted to mention that this is long-term development plan for dub registry too (at least Sonke has expressed certain interest in it in private mail discussion), so lets try to avoid effort duplication :)

Which points does that cover?  And how does that even work?  Unless I've missed something, the registry is the package repository.

-Wyatt

On Thursday, 24 October 2013 at 13:36:42 UTC, Wyatt wrote:
> Which points does that cover?  And how does that even work?  Unless I've missed something, the registry is the package repository.

Better searching / discovery of D projects, automatic CI for added packages, project feedback / rating. It will be still restricted to conforming dub packages but becoming primary D project informational hub was mentioned as a long-term goal (it is my personal interest but Sonke has no objections :P)

On Thursday, 24 October 2013 at 12:44:21 UTC, Wyatt wrote:
> On Thursday, 24 October 2013 at 05:13:55 UTC, Jesse Phillips wrote:
>>
>> I'd rather start with more permissions to update the homepage.
>
> So for the time being shall we do just that?  Something along the lines of Dicebot's suggestion is good as at least a temporary solution (not permanent or comprehensive unless it's on EVERY page).
>
> If you're willing, I'll tell Brad to get in touch with you and Mike Parker, and let things proceed from there.
>
> -Wyatt

Sure, my user name is nascent, and email me at Jesse.K.Phillips+D@gmail.com