That's something I for one would welcome, and I'm sure others too. I'd like to see some traction on this
On 25 Mar 2011, at 20:38, David Bruant <david.bru...@labri.fr> wrote: > Le 25/03/2011 20:18, Brendan Eich a écrit : >> Dunno. You were ravaged by the Crocken so you may be a bit sore still :-/. >> >> Any list with informal/unsound syntax talk is not one I want to be on. It's >> not quite beer talk. It could lead to a breakthrough idea, who knows? But >> the cost is pretty high. >> >> I'm not against syntax proposals here, mind you. Let's just work out the >> grammar a bit before launching. > This is said and (hopefully) read by people who are currently on the > list. But it might be worth saying it while welcoming people on > es-discuss (on the listinfo page or welcoming e-mail after validation) > so that each time someone comes in with the expectation of bringing a > syntax idea, s/he can be told beforehand that s/he should start working > on the grammar and bring something already solid to the mailing-list. > > I haven't taken the occasion to do so yet, but I'd like to thank you for > considering that an open mailing-list will be beneficial for ECMAScript > as a language. > Nevertheless, by doing so, you're creating a community and like every > community, there are rules, conventions, expectations. It might be time > to formalize these in a way or another. The WHATWG has done it on their > wiki. For inspiration, I recommend reading: > * > http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/FAQ#Is_there_a_process_for_removing_bad_ideas_from_a_specification.3F > * > http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/FAQ#Is_there_a_process_for_adding_new_features_to_a_specification.3F > * http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/FAQ#Mailing_List > > Regards, > > David > >> /be >> >> On Mar 25, 2011, at 12:09 PM, Kris Kowal wrote: >>> On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 11:24 AM, Brendan Eich <bren...@mozilla.com> wrote: >>>> No problem -- just don't provoke Zeus to unleash the Crock-en ;-). >>>> https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/es-discuss/2011-February/012761.html >>> Perhaps there needs to be a venue where non-experts can bounce ideas >>> and discuss points of pain with volunteering committee members to >>> reduce noise in this venue. There is little room here for >>> light-hearted discussion and mentoring for members of the community >>> who have less than full-time commitment and years of experience in >>> language design. >>> >>> It's disappointing to be ostracized, but it is true. I also want to >>> see careful and well-wrought steady progress. I remember a former >>> decade when this discussion was impossible to follow, too many bad >>> ideas were too thoroughly discussed, and much time was wasted. >>> >>> Kris Kowal >> _______________________________________________ >> es-discuss mailing list >> es-discuss@mozilla.org >> https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss > > _______________________________________________ > es-discuss mailing list > es-discuss@mozilla.org > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list es-discuss@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
