Dlist and dip1000 challenge

Neia Neutuladh neia at ikeran.org
Wed Oct 24 05:20:23 UTC 2018


On Tue, 23 Oct 2018 18:31:33 -0700, Walter Bright wrote:

> On 10/23/2018 4:56 PM, Nicholas Wilson wrote:
>> He doesn't need to, I did it for him:
>> https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/8504 He just needs to review it.
> 
> https://github.com/dlang/dlang.org/pull/2453
> 
> While I thank and appreciate you for doing this work, and especially for
> taking the initiative instead of just complaining, I don't think that
> modifying a DIP that has already been approved is appropriate process.
> It should be a PR against the spec. Approved specs should be immutable.
> 
> In the meantime, an Enhancement Request in Bugzilla is perfectly
> adequate documentation for a minor amendment, which is what this is. It
> can be merged into the spec later. We do this all the time.

The change seems small to you, so documenting it at the same time as the 
PR is out doesn't seem that important. But it still needs to be 
documented, and people are asking for the documentation to help with 
reviewing the PR. Why not just write the documentation? It's been three 
months.


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