Formal Review Process

SomeDude lovelydear at mailmetrash.com
Wed Jun 12 23:00:05 PDT 2013


On Tuesday, 11 June 2013 at 13:55:31 UTC, Jesse Phillips wrote:
> On Tuesday, 11 June 2013 at 03:36:23 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
> wrote:
>> The whole _point_ of an official review is to review the API 
>> that would end up in Phobos (the implementation is also 
>> important but very much secondary).
>
> Then what are you complaining about?
>
>> If a submission's API isn't ready to be merged into Phobos 
>> assuming that it passed the vote, then it isn't ready for 
>> review.
>
> The whole point of an official review is to decided if the API 
> is ready to be merged into Phobos. A review manager can't make 
> that decision, he brings it to the community and has them 
> decided, "Is this API what we would like to see for handling 
> ____?" and the community votes yes or no.
>
Nope. The whole point of a review process is to see if it can be 
*accepted* into Phobos. That is to say, it's already merged and 
mostly debugged.

You can call your process whatever you want,  but it's *not* a 
"formal review process". It's more like a RFC.


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