DIP 1028--Make @safe the Default--Formal Assessment

[Les De Ridder]

On Thursday, 21 May 2020 at 16:48:22 UTC, SashaGreat wrote:
> On Thursday, 21 May 2020 at 16:32:32 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
>> On Thursday, 21 May 2020 at 16:14:02 UTC, Seb wrote:
>>> Why we can't we have a technical board where the community 
>>> can vote in experts and potentially companies could even buy 
>>> a seat for $$$ which would mean a lot more for them than the 
>>> current very vague sponsorship options.
>>
>> ditto, I think we should have like a seven person elected DIP 
>> committee who pass/fail things by majority vote. It is obvious 
>> to me that the current process is totally useless.
>
> Exactly and I even remember there was even a discussion about 
> this on reddit (/r/programming) sometime ago where someone was 
> pointing the flaws on D, and someone said the DIP process was 
> one of them, and there were some known people around here 
> replying that comment saying it was not the case.
>
> The discussion topic about this DIP 
> (https://forum.dlang.org/thread/wkdpnzarkbtqryighzpx@forum.dlang.org) had 210 replies, some concerns and in the end was ACCEPT WITHOUT ANY COMMENT.
>
> This is what I call a waste of everybody's time.

Completely agree. The way DIPs are being handled is quite 
disappointing
and unproductive. If the authors aren't even intending to address 
(or
even acknowledge) difficult comments, why even write a DIP and 
have
the community spend time on it at all?

It also is not very encouraging to potential DIP authors who 
aren't
Walter (or Átila or Andrei).