Bug 20856 – add dlang-community adoption request link to the dub package page of code.dlang.org

this is the follow up of: https://forum.dlang.org/post/[email protected] Hi, I'm new here, try to start using D on my hobby projects, and I quickly run into issues when looking for supporting libraries. I'm searching for a fixed point (decimal) type. On code.dlang.org, I found two packages having the functionalities that I need: https://code.dlang.org/packages/decimal https://code.dlang.org/packages/money But I then run into issues with these packages (one has bug, and the other has compilation issues: https://github.com/qznc/d-money/issues/11 https://github.com/rumbu13/decimal/issues/9) And worse, it looks like both packages are no longer maintained by their original owners. Then I found other people experienced the same difficulties, and started to re-invent those wheels, and the new packages are in 0.0.x stage with limited functionalities. I think we are wasting our community effort here. I'm wondering: 1) can we form a dub packages maintenance group, to take care of these no longer maintained packages 2) can we change the code.dlang.org to allow other users take over those packages, e.g. after 2 weeks no reply from the original owner: https://github.com/rumbu13/decimal/issues/9#issuecomment-632843049 ''' I would be willing to take over and fix the package. I have forked it already months ago. The most important think would be to give me access on code.dlang.org, so users would find it. ''' https://github.com/rumbu13/decimal/issues/8 (this issue has been more than half year now). 3) make the new "may-take-over-when-needed" policy explicit on https://code.dlang.org/, when people register new packages. 4) create a "dub packages maintenance" group in this forum, so people can discuss these issues. Anything else? thoughts? On Friday, 22 May 2020 at 21:15:42 UTC, Paul Backus wrote: > I believe this is the purpose of the dlang-community github organization: > > https://github.com/dlang-community Thanks for the link, can we add this link to https://code.dlang.org/ on each individual package's page, with the message: If you found issues with this package, and it is no longer maintained and worth maintaining, please file an issue at: https://github.com/dlang-community/discussions/issues I'm adding the two packages I just found there, e.g. https://github.com/dlang-community/discussions/issues/44 https://github.com/dlang-community/discussions/issues/43

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