D 1.076 and 2.061 release

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 1/7/13 9:51 AM, Leandro Lucarella wrote:
> Andrei Alexandrescu, el  7 de January a las 08:31 me escribiste:
>>> Why would I bother to do anything if is very likely that Walter don't want
>>> to go that direction and all my work was done for nothing? Been there
>>> before. Now I'm more cautious when selecting my battles.
>>
>> One thing I want to do is enshrine a vetting mechanism that would
>> allow Walter and myself to "pre-approve" enhancement requests.
>> Someone (including us) would submit an enhancement request to
>> Bugzilla, and then Walter and I add the tag "preapproved" to it.
>> That means an implementation of the request has our approval
>> assuming it has the appropriate quality.
>>
>> That should reduce the cognitive load ("am I working for nothing
>> over here?") on the proponent of the feature and would also motivate
>> the proponent to define the feature with reasonable completeness
>> before implementing it.
>
> I think that would help a *LOT*. So basically this tag would mean
> something like: If somebody implement this AND the implementation is
> complete AND it has good quality, it will be in the next release?

Yah, that's the idea.

> If so, that's not too far from roadmap.

It's less structured than a roadmap but maybe that's what would make it 
tenable!


Andrei