The DIP Process

[Donald]

On Tuesday, 26 February 2019 at 19:45:40 UTC, James Blachly wrote:
> In my fields (medicine and genomics), it is extremely common 
> that high impact journals offer a pre-review/estimate of 
> suitability to authors prior to submission.

Let's say for example someone ask Andrei/Walter about adding X 
feature in the language, and they both say it sounds good.

Then the DIP is written and proposed, but unfortunately it has 
flaws and in the end it's rejected.

So I think that your suggestion will not change much the final 
result.

The way I see there is a lack of reviewers to take care or 
participate in the DIP during it's development, so it will only 
be reviewed at the end.

Now the "proposers" need to understand that it may be rejected, 
yes it's hard but it can happen.

Finally for what I've saw from the past cases, the reviewers 
pointed their concerns, and you would expect then that the 
"proposers" to fix their DIPs.

Donald.