• Mike Parker (22/22) Dec 08 2014 I've noticed an increase in the number of people coming to these
• Rikki Cattermole (6/27) Dec 08 2014 I like it, but maybe extend it one further with:

"Mike Parker" <aldacron gmail.com> writes:

I've noticed an increase in the number of people coming to these 
forums (particularly .learn) for help with some of the tools and 
libraries in the D ecosystem. Some of these projects have their 
own forums, others don't. I think it would be beneficial to have 
a new group on the news server, something like 
digitalmars.D.thirdparty. I see a few benefits from this:

* it helps keep .D and .learn focused on DMD and the language

* it gives us one place to point people to for help with libraries

* it gives library developers with no forum space a place to 
offer support for their libraries

Back in the dsource days it wasn't so bad having separate forums 
from the newsgroups because they were all hosted in one place. 
IMO, it added to the cohesion of the community. New users don't 
always turn to the newsgroups, but they often showed up on 
dsource to look for help with specific projects. Now, while many 
D projects are hosted at github, the maintainers are on their own 
when it comes to support forums. D users may need to create 
multiple forum accounts for the projects that have them, while 
turning to .learn or #D for those that don't. New users have 
nothing guiding them into the main channels of communication. 
That cohesion of the community is gone.

Thoughts?

Rikki Cattermole <alphaglosined gmail.com> writes:

On 9/12/2014 2:46 p.m., Mike Parker wrote:
 I've noticed an increase in the number of people coming to these forums
 (particularly .learn) for help with some of the tools and libraries in
 the D ecosystem. Some of these projects have their own forums, others
 don't. I think it would be beneficial to have a new group on the news
 server, something like digitalmars.D.thirdparty. I see a few benefits
 from this:

 * it helps keep .D and .learn focused on DMD and the language

 * it gives us one place to point people to for help with libraries

 * it gives library developers with no forum space a place to offer
 support for their libraries

 Back in the dsource days it wasn't so bad having separate forums from
 the newsgroups because they were all hosted in one place. IMO, it added
 to the cohesion of the community. New users don't always turn to the
 newsgroups, but they often showed up on dsource to look for help with
 specific projects. Now, while many D projects are hosted at github, the
 maintainers are on their own when it comes to support forums. D users
 may need to create multiple forum accounts for the projects that have
 them, while turning to .learn or #D for those that don't. New users have
 nothing guiding them into the main channels of communication. That
 cohesion of the community is gone.

 Thoughts?

I like it, but maybe extend it one further with:
digitalmars.D.libraries.learn
and
digitalmars.D.libraries

With the later being more design/implementation/request sort of thing.