Ready for review of Formal Review

Brad Roberts braddr at puremagic.com
Tue Jun 18 10:29:38 PDT 2013


Any block of code going into phobos (or druntime, but it ought to be extremely rare that we're 
adding any significant chunks of code there) really should be portable to all supported platforms 
(the union of dmd, gdc, and ldc).

On 6/18/13 10:18 AM, Timothee Cour wrote:
> Just a concern regarding requirement for portability:
> we should strive for portability whenever possible, but this shouldn't hinder useful library code
> that works only on a subset of platforms (eg support for other platforms could come later if at all).
>
> On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 7:36 AM, Jesse Phillips <Jesse.K.Phillips+D at gmail.com
> <mailto:Jesse.K.Phillips+D at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hello All,
>
>     I have been working on the Review Process documentation and believe it should go through a
>     review similar to the process for which it describes. This would mean a review manager and
>     voting. After that it is up to the review manager to decide how to run the review.
>
>     http://wiki.dlang.org/Review/__Process <http://wiki.dlang.org/Review/Process>
>
>     All details are up for discussion, I have placed "Approval Wanted" in places likely to be
>     controversial so those are good places to jump to if short on time.
>
>     I have taken the Boost process[1] and consolidated it to the points we currently use and
>     probably should use, while leaving out items that at this time have not been used and would
>     likely not lead to better results.
>
>     Would anyone be willing to be a review manager?
>
>     Should this be placed in the review queue? :)
>
>     1. http://www.boost.org/__community/reviews.html <http://www.boost.org/community/reviews.html>
>
>



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