Proposal for std.path replacement

Andrei Alexandrescu SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org
Sun Mar 6 18:08:49 PST 2011


On 3/6/11 8:03 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Sunday 06 March 2011 17:35:32 Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> However, are you indicating that we should
>>> never have more than one module in review at a time? I see some benefit
>>> in spreading them out, on the other hand, if we have multiple modules
>>> ready for review, it seems like we could be slowing down progress
>>> unnecessarily if we ruled that we could only ever have one module under
>>> review at a time.
>>
>> We should have only one review at a time. That way each review will be
>> thorough. Boost does that, and I don't want to mess with success -
>> particularly since the Boost community is larger too.
>
> In the general case, that seems like a good idea. I just don't want to get in a
> situation where we have several modules in the queue which are ready for review
> but have to wait a month or two, because another module is under review. In the
> case of std.path, that could mean that we'll have to wait nearly a month to get
> it in. That will likely push it back a whole release. So, I have mixed feelings
> on the matter. In principle, having only one module in review at a time is a
> good idea, but I fear that it will slow down our progress unnecessarily.
>
> Still, if that's what you want to do, we might as well go forward with it for
> now and review that decision if we end up with too many items on the back burner
> awaiting review. While there does appear to have been a bit of an uptick on
> possible modules for review of late, we haven't exactly had tons of them being
> put forth for review yet either.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

Yah, thing is people work on stuff they care about, not the most urgent 
stuff - surprise! :o) As such we don't have a ton of proposals for 
networking and xml, but we do have one (and I won't argue it's a bad 
one) for rehashing a module that basically worked.


Andrei


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