Contributing to the compiler? Tracking suggestions?

[Alexander Panek]

What would you think about a little proposal system? Every proposal has
to be approved and improved by the community until it is ready to be
formed to a final formal proposal (like RFCs?). You could then decide
whether you want to use it or not based on your own intention and the
community's votings/contributions/whatever.

IMHO, that would be a great system to help you manage proposals on one
hand and provide a defined way to create proposals for the community. Of
course, the newsgroup would then 'just' be for discussions or work in
progress proposals which then might become 'real' ones.

Alex


On Mon, 2006-10-23 at 01:35 -0700, Walter Bright wrote:
> Bill Baxter wrote:
> > There's also the tracker for D [2], but a comment on one enhancement 
> > proposal I saw there says that the D issue tracker is reserved for 
> > suggestions that received positive feedback from Walter, but many good 
> > ideas are just ignored by Walter until like 90% the community jumps up 
> > and down about it simultaneously.
> 
> The suggestions for new features come in *daily*, sometimes several 
> times a day. It's not possible to give a thoughtful response to them 
> all, and it would be inappropriate to give a flip response.
> 
> Let alone the impossibility of implementing all of them, or even all the 
> good ones.
> 
> So some sort of vetting process has to happen.