std.experimental Timeline

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This topic is a bit complicated because idea of introducing 
std.experimental came from Andrei but without any specifics. At 
that time I was doing most of Phobos review queue bookkeeping and 
I had to propose some formal process to respect Andrei desire (I 
personally was against the concept).

Thus the original formal process was looking like this in my head:
     - initial voting only decides if proposed module is needed in 
Phobos at all and if author looks competent enough to get it 
finished
     - any time release beta starts std.experimental module author 
can ask review manager to start voting for final inclusion
     - this voting becomes true quality and stability control 
point - reviewers/voters have to decide if API and implementation 
are good enough to get frozen
     - if voting fails, proposal is kept in std.experimental until 
all issues are addressed and process repeats again

Idea of any "automatic" inclusion is very harmful because by 
current standard std.experimental modules are not required to 
have Phobos quality and can be very far from being good enough.

What makes things most complicated is that I don't do review 
bookkeeping anymore and no one else (including Andrei himself) 
have been willing to take control of the process since than.