On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 10:22:49AM +0000, Joakim via Digitalmars-d wrote: > On Thursday, 25 September 2014 at 13:56:20 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: > >On 9/25/14, 4:30 AM, Joakim wrote: > >>I'm sorry but it's ridiculous for you two co-BDFLs not to put > >>these new priorities or pre-approved features (perhaps even a > >>list of features you'd automatically reject) in a list on the > >>wiki and maintain it yourselves. It's the least you can do > >>considering the veto power you have. > > > >That's sensible. We have the "preapproved" tag at > >http://issues.dlang.org exactly for that kind of stuff. (I should > >note, however, that sometimes it backfires - I've added > >https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13517 with preapproved > >knowing it's sensible and entirely noncontroversial and got > >unexpected pushback for it.) > > That's not enough. While it's nice that a "preapproved" tag is being > used on bugzilla, most of those issues are too low-level and an > obscure bugzilla tag hardly fits the bill, particularly when most D > users have never seen the D bugzilla let alone use it. It needs to be > a page on the wiki or the main site, which you or any user can link to > anytime people want to know the plan.
I'm thinking either a wiki page, or a dedicated webpage on dlang.org, that contains a link to a prebaked bugzilla query that returns all preapproved issues. Or perhaps just add that to http://dlang.org/bugstats.php . > I gave a specific example with dfix, yet to get an answer on that. > Brian may have marked his DIP 65 as rejected a couple months back, but > that still doesn't answer the broader question of using a dfix tool > for other cleanup. [...] I'm thinking we, the community, should just go ahead with writing a dfix utility, promote it, and use it. Once it becomes a de facto standard, it will be much easier to convince the BDFLs to "officially" adopt it. ;-) T -- Give a man a fish, and he eats once. Teach a man to fish, and he will sit forever.