Mars Drafting Library - Official community driven library

[Jonathan Marler via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, 31 January 2015 at 14:06:20 UTC, Piotrek wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The history of std.(experimental.)logger and the latest thread 
> about gui functionality inclusion into Phobos made me think 
> about how to solve the problem of adding new modules.
>
> I came up with the idea (maybe not new) to create a additional 
> library(along druntime and Phobos) delivered with dmd package 
> and named "Mars" (Deimos is unfortunately already taken ).
>
> The library itself would be driven by community (not individual 
> library developer) in order to be... the standard.
>
> The process would be something similar to that other committees 
> use
> (e.g http://www.iec.ch/standardsdev/how/processes/development/) 
> where before the standard is approved it goes through a draft 
> stage. Still a draft can be used to create a working product 
> (e.g. some Wi-Fi solutions based on IEEE 802.11 drafts)
>
> Possible initial prerequisites:
> - User awareness about the usage consequences
> - Library placed at https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/
> - Only well recognized community members have pull rights
> - design decision made on the best known sw engineering 
> patterns used in D
> - New module should be functional with D/Phobos standards 
> applied
> - API and implementation allowed to change any time in order to 
> make a progress
> - no external dependencies beside OS services
> - "draft" as the root module name e.g. "module draft.gui"
>
> Advantages:
> - community driven process which ensures the lowest level of 
> controversy
> - fast path for modules like GUI to be standardized
>
> Disadvantages:
> - additional effort for the sw release process
>
> Ready to be destroyed ;)
>
> Piotrek

I approve :) +1