Dip Discussion

[Lodovico Giaretta via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 28 August 2016 at 22:16:47 UTC, Illuminati wrote:
> On Sunday, 28 August 2016 at 18:43:05 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
>> For now intention is to aggregate all discussion threads / 
>> reviews / mail list archives via links in DIP itself. Thanks 
>> for reminding about it btw, I have just added 
>> https://github.com/dlang/DIPs/blob/master/DIPs/DIP1000.md#reviews
>>
>> Adding something more complicated can be considered but we 
>> don't have that much DIP related information traffic yet to 
>> make extra complexity worthwhile.
>
> I don't know how you can make such an assertion. It's like 
> saying that if there were no humans around to breath there 
> would be no oxygen. You have to build something first for it to 
> be used and grow, not the other way around, which is illogical. 
> People can't use something if it doesn't exist, so you can't 
> claim that for it to be created(put in to existence) that first 
> people need to use it("have traffic"). The better you build 
> something the more people will use it. If you can't build it 
> well then no need to beat around the bush.

We have official threads in General and in Announce where people 
discuss about DIPs. The traffic on those threads is not so high 
as to justify having a dedicated channel for them. Being where 
they currently are is sufficient for the current needs.

So I have to agree with Dicebot.