Generality creep

[Walter Bright]

On 4/1/2019 6:11 PM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> Had this been posted openly at the time, there might have been a lot
> less frustration.  This is an area I feel desperately needs improvement.
> This repeated lack of communication of this sort of thought process in
> one form or another is what leads to repeated frustrations and
> conflicts, because would-be contributors feel like information is being
> withheld that would have enabled them to better understand what is
> expected of them.  Even if these were just vague thoughts or a crude
> outline of what you have in mind, and nowhere near something formal and
> "presentable", providing partial information is better than no
> information at all.

Actually, Andrei and I simply assumed this was obvious. Obviously, it wasn't.