Decisions and the "preapproved" Bugzilla keyword

Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Mon Jul 7 15:37:30 PDT 2014


On 7/7/14, 10:20 AM, Brian Schott wrote:
> Whet is the list of people who are able to add the "preapproved" keyword
> in Bugzilla? I.e. if we need a yes/no decision on a language change that
> can break people's code, how does one actually go about "making it
> happen" (as Walter phrased it in another thread)?
>
> We have a decision making process in place for additions to the standard
> library, but not one for language changes. I'd like to be able to get a
> "this is a good idea" or "this is a bad idea" from somebody with
> decision making authority before I sink the dozens of hours into
> implementing a compiler change, testing it, and creating an automated
> upgrade tool.

It's a fuzzy list. I'd say Walter and I are necessary but not sufficient 
to guarantee a feature change/addition. -- Andrei


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