DIP1028 - Rationale for accepting as is

Atila Neves atila.neves at gmail.com
Fri May 22 17:00:10 UTC 2020


On Friday, 22 May 2020 at 03:57:22 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 06:22:19PM -0700, Walter Bright via 
> Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
>> I have made these points before, but I'll summarize them here 
>> for convenient referral.
> [...]
>
> Thank you.  This makes your position clear, even if I don't 
> entirely agree with it.  On that note, though: this really 
> should have been part of the DIP acceptance announcement, not 
> added as an afterthought. Otherwise people will perceive 
> (correctly or not) the DIP as being accepted without 
> acknowledging any of the issues raised.  This summary is 
> exactly what would have defused a lot of the frustrations 
> raised here.  For the future may I recommend making it a point 
> to include such a summary with the announcement of each DIP 
> accepted/rejected.
>
>
> T

This is a very good point, and I think that in the future Walter 
and I should attach an explanation of why a DIP got accepted or 
not for transparency and communication reasons.


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