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digitalmars.D.announce - Awesome-D, and an invitation to you awesome guys

reply "Puming" <zhaopuming gmail.com> writes:
Hi,

I'm maintaining this awesome-d list similar to other 
awesome-stuff lists on github, for keeping a hook on interesting 
D related links.

https://github.com/zhaopuming/awesome-d

At first it was only for my personal use, but recently I got some 
ideas about it that could potentially contribute to the 
community, so here I am making this little announcement and 
invating all you awesome guys to help me :-)

The ideas are:

1. Awesome-People list that made D awesome.
2. A relation network on github projects

First one is about the awesome people, that is you guys. I've 
been lurking in this forum for many years (dating back to D1 
days). But only recently, after watching the great dconf videos, 
have I realized that it is the awesome people that makes the 
language/ecosystem awesome. I want to know you. And I think the 
new comers of D would also like to know you, each one of you 
great guys who made a library/tool that make their programming 
life a better place.

For lack of information and for the respect of privacy, currently 
I have only listed Walter and Andrei on the list, 
<https://github.com/zhaopuming/awesome-d#people>. But I'd really 
like to know about other people here, like kenji the great bug 
killing machie always in the shadow, or bearophile who studied an 
endless list of languages and exploded bugzilla, and many other.

For privacy, I think it's best that only the descriptions 
provided by people themselves or really related people should be 
allowed, or at least a permission is acquired by the person. 
(Sorry Walter and Andrei, I haven't asked for your permissions. 
But you're the stars and public faces here :-), privacy for you 
is a past).

I think people would be interesting to know who you are, what 
have you done, what do you think about D and it's future, what 
are you interesting, etc. Maybe an interview is a better option, 
but I don't know how to do that here. Do you guys have any ideas?

For the second stuff, after I made the awesome-d list, the 
awesome-awesome list maintainer made a pull request to add mine 
to his list and connect. Then I found a list of awesome-c, 
awesome-clojure, and all other awesome lists:

https://github.com/bayandin/awesome-awesomeness

which is very interesting and a good way to find information.

So the similar idea came to me: Why don't try to build a network 
about D stuff? D libs are scattered even in github--you don't 
have a good way to search for the libs you're interested in.

Now we have code.dlang.org, but it is also a one way list. 
Ideally it would be two way: if a person bumped into one of the D 
projects, and in the project there is a link that says "enlisted 
on code.dlang.org", then he can easily go to code.dlang.org and 
see what other interesting, related projects their are.
This is very similar to what "for me on github" does, it makes a 
network.

Of couse, what I want to have is also "enlisted on awesome-d". Do 
you project maintainers think it's good?

One last request for help: You might noticed that I'm not a 
native english speaker, so there are many grammar or style 
problems in the awesome-d list, if you find any, please help me 
fix it.

Best Regards.

Puming
Aug 10 2014
next sibling parent "Puming" <zhaopuming gmail.com> writes:
I forgot to note about wiki.dlang.org, and here it is:

I knew we have maintained a library list on wiki.dlang.org, 
actually I made several links to it in awesome-d. But why should 
I create this separate list on github? After some thinking, I 
justified it with the following reasons:

1. It is more personal and customizable. Every one can fork their 
own list and only keep things they're interested in. It is more 
opionioned.

2. For github users, especially new comers in D, wiki.dlang.org 
are an external
link, and a github page is more familiar and welcome. It is very 
easy to 'star'
a github page, compared to go to wike.dlang.org and find the 
list. This also applies to the dlang.org homepage and is also the 
reason why python\ruby also has a github awesome-list.

3. Its easier to contribute. Although this might not seem 
obvious, but I've seem that when D goes into github, the 
contribution got a big boost. People tend to contribute on github 
more than if it is in a private code repo. I think similar things 
apply for awesome-list vs wiki.

3. awesome-d joins the awesome-awesome list and would be more 
discoverable than wiki.dlang.org in github. this 'awesome' thing 
is already familiar to people.

4. we can make a bidirectional link network on github to 
advertise for good libraries.

So this list is only a companion to wiki.dlang.org's list.

I hope it's useful.

Of cause, it would be better we make a official awesome-d list on 
D-Programming-Language's github page.


On Sunday, 10 August 2014 at 09:28:48 UTC, Puming wrote:
 Hi,

 I'm maintaining this awesome-d list similar to other 
 awesome-stuff lists on github, for keeping a hook on 
 interesting D related links.

 https://github.com/zhaopuming/awesome-d

 At first it was only for my personal use, but recently I got 
 some ideas about it that could potentially contribute to the 
 community, so here I am making this little announcement and 
 invating all you awesome guys to help me :-)

 The ideas are:

 1. Awesome-People list that made D awesome.
 2. A relation network on github projects

 First one is about the awesome people, that is you guys. I've 
 been lurking in this forum for many years (dating back to D1 
 days). But only recently, after watching the great dconf 
 videos, have I realized that it is the awesome people that 
 makes the language/ecosystem awesome. I want to know you. And I 
 think the new comers of D would also like to know you, each one 
 of you great guys who made a library/tool that make their 
 programming life a better place.

 For lack of information and for the respect of privacy, 
 currently I have only listed Walter and Andrei on the list, 
 <https://github.com/zhaopuming/awesome-d#people>. But I'd 
 really like to know about other people here, like kenji the 
 great bug killing machie always in the shadow, or bearophile 
 who studied an endless list of languages and exploded bugzilla, 
 and many other.

 For privacy, I think it's best that only the descriptions 
 provided by people themselves or really related people should 
 be allowed, or at least a permission is acquired by the person. 
 (Sorry Walter and Andrei, I haven't asked for your permissions. 
 But you're the stars and public faces here :-), privacy for you 
 is a past).

 I think people would be interesting to know who you are, what 
 have you done, what do you think about D and it's future, what 
 are you interesting, etc. Maybe an interview is a better 
 option, but I don't know how to do that here. Do you guys have 
 any ideas?

 For the second stuff, after I made the awesome-d list, the 
 awesome-awesome list maintainer made a pull request to add mine 
 to his list and connect. Then I found a list of awesome-c, 
 awesome-clojure, and all other awesome lists:

 https://github.com/bayandin/awesome-awesomeness

 which is very interesting and a good way to find information.

 So the similar idea came to me: Why don't try to build a 
 network about D stuff? D libs are scattered even in github--you 
 don't have a good way to search for the libs you're interested 
 in.

 Now we have code.dlang.org, but it is also a one way list. 
 Ideally it would be two way: if a person bumped into one of the 
 D projects, and in the project there is a link that says 
 "enlisted on code.dlang.org", then he can easily go to 
 code.dlang.org and see what other interesting, related projects 
 their are.
 This is very similar to what "for me on github" does, it makes 
 a network.

 Of couse, what I want to have is also "enlisted on awesome-d". 
 Do you project maintainers think it's good?

 One last request for help: You might noticed that I'm not a 
 native english speaker, so there are many grammar or style 
 problems in the awesome-d list, if you find any, please help me 
 fix it.

 Best Regards.

 Puming
Aug 10 2014
prev sibling parent reply "NCrashed" <NCrashed gmail.com> writes:
On Sunday, 10 August 2014 at 09:28:48 UTC, Puming wrote:
 Hi,

 I'm maintaining this awesome-d list similar to other 
 awesome-stuff lists on github, for keeping a hook on 
 interesting D related links.

 https://github.com/zhaopuming/awesome-d

 At first it was only for my personal use, but recently I got 
 some ideas about it that could potentially contribute to the 
 community, so here I am making this little announcement and 
 invating all you awesome guys to help me :-)

 The ideas are:

 1. Awesome-People list that made D awesome.
 2. A relation network on github projects

 First one is about the awesome people, that is you guys. I've 
 been lurking in this forum for many years (dating back to D1 
 days). But only recently, after watching the great dconf 
 videos, have I realized that it is the awesome people that 
 makes the language/ecosystem awesome. I want to know you. And I 
 think the new comers of D would also like to know you, each one 
 of you great guys who made a library/tool that make their 
 programming life a better place.

 For lack of information and for the respect of privacy, 
 currently I have only listed Walter and Andrei on the list, 
 <https://github.com/zhaopuming/awesome-d#people>. But I'd 
 really like to know about other people here, like kenji the 
 great bug killing machie always in the shadow, or bearophile 
 who studied an endless list of languages and exploded bugzilla, 
 and many other.

 For privacy, I think it's best that only the descriptions 
 provided by people themselves or really related people should 
 be allowed, or at least a permission is acquired by the person. 
 (Sorry Walter and Andrei, I haven't asked for your permissions. 
 But you're the stars and public faces here :-), privacy for you 
 is a past).

 I think people would be interesting to know who you are, what 
 have you done, what do you think about D and it's future, what 
 are you interesting, etc. Maybe an interview is a better 
 option, but I don't know how to do that here. Do you guys have 
 any ideas?

 For the second stuff, after I made the awesome-d list, the 
 awesome-awesome list maintainer made a pull request to add mine 
 to his list and connect. Then I found a list of awesome-c, 
 awesome-clojure, and all other awesome lists:

 https://github.com/bayandin/awesome-awesomeness

 which is very interesting and a good way to find information.

 So the similar idea came to me: Why don't try to build a 
 network about D stuff? D libs are scattered even in github--you 
 don't have a good way to search for the libs you're interested 
 in.

 Now we have code.dlang.org, but it is also a one way list. 
 Ideally it would be two way: if a person bumped into one of the 
 D projects, and in the project there is a link that says 
 "enlisted on code.dlang.org", then he can easily go to 
 code.dlang.org and see what other interesting, related projects 
 their are.
 This is very similar to what "for me on github" does, it makes 
 a network.

 Of couse, what I want to have is also "enlisted on awesome-d". 
 Do you project maintainers think it's good?

 One last request for help: You might noticed that I'm not a 
 native english speaker, so there are many grammar or style 
 problems in the awesome-d list, if you find any, please help me 
 fix it.

 Best Regards.

 Puming
I like the idea to collect useful links, but more useful to collect all info on single portal. Integrate wiki, dlang, code.dlang.org, bugtracker, add some github integration via its api - dreams, the only dreams.
Aug 10 2014
parent "Puming" <zhaopuming gmail.com> writes:
On Sunday, 10 August 2014 at 10:01:58 UTC, NCrashed wrote:
 On Sunday, 10 August 2014 at 09:28:48 UTC, Puming wrote:
 Hi,

 I'm maintaining this awesome-d list similar to other 
 awesome-stuff lists on github, for keeping a hook on 
 interesting D related links.

 https://github.com/zhaopuming/awesome-d

 At first it was only for my personal use, but recently I got 
 some ideas about it that could potentially contribute to the 
 community, so here I am making this little announcement and 
 invating all you awesome guys to help me :-)

 The ideas are:

 1. Awesome-People list that made D awesome.
 2. A relation network on github projects

 First one is about the awesome people, that is you guys. I've 
 been lurking in this forum for many years (dating back to D1 
 days). But only recently, after watching the great dconf 
 videos, have I realized that it is the awesome people that 
 makes the language/ecosystem awesome. I want to know you. And 
 I think the new comers of D would also like to know you, each 
 one of you great guys who made a library/tool that make their 
 programming life a better place.

 For lack of information and for the respect of privacy, 
 currently I have only listed Walter and Andrei on the list, 
 <https://github.com/zhaopuming/awesome-d#people>. But I'd 
 really like to know about other people here, like kenji the 
 great bug killing machie always in the shadow, or bearophile 
 who studied an endless list of languages and exploded 
 bugzilla, and many other.

 For privacy, I think it's best that only the descriptions 
 provided by people themselves or really related people should 
 be allowed, or at least a permission is acquired by the 
 person. (Sorry Walter and Andrei, I haven't asked for your 
 permissions. But you're the stars and public faces here :-), 
 privacy for you is a past).

 I think people would be interesting to know who you are, what 
 have you done, what do you think about D and it's future, what 
 are you interesting, etc. Maybe an interview is a better 
 option, but I don't know how to do that here. Do you guys have 
 any ideas?

 For the second stuff, after I made the awesome-d list, the 
 awesome-awesome list maintainer made a pull request to add 
 mine to his list and connect. Then I found a list of 
 awesome-c, awesome-clojure, and all other awesome lists:

 https://github.com/bayandin/awesome-awesomeness

 which is very interesting and a good way to find information.

 So the similar idea came to me: Why don't try to build a 
 network about D stuff? D libs are scattered even in 
 github--you don't have a good way to search for the libs 
 you're interested in.

 Now we have code.dlang.org, but it is also a one way list. 
 Ideally it would be two way: if a person bumped into one of 
 the D projects, and in the project there is a link that says 
 "enlisted on code.dlang.org", then he can easily go to 
 code.dlang.org and see what other interesting, related 
 projects their are.
 This is very similar to what "for me on github" does, it makes 
 a network.

 Of couse, what I want to have is also "enlisted on awesome-d". 
 Do you project maintainers think it's good?

 One last request for help: You might noticed that I'm not a 
 native english speaker, so there are many grammar or style 
 problems in the awesome-d list, if you find any, please help 
 me fix it.

 Best Regards.

 Puming
I like the idea to collect useful links, but more useful to collect all info on single portal. Integrate wiki, dlang, code.dlang.org, bugtracker, add some github integration via its api - dreams, the only dreams.
Wow, that is an interesting idea. And that page should be put on the first page of dlang.org :-)
Aug 10 2014