Announcement: "preapproved" tag added to bugzilla

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 1/9/13 9:15 PM, Pierre Rouleau wrote:
> On 13-01-08 9:09 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>
>> As part of our continued efforts to improve the process, we have added
>> the "preapproved" tag to bugzilla.
>>
>> An enhancement request that has the "preapproved" tag is considered
>> reviewed and vetted by Walter (and myself on occasion). An
>> implementation of the issue is guaranteed to be approved pending
>> technical review.
>>
>> This is part of a larger attempt to make it easy for contributors to
>> work on items of maximum impact, while hedging the risk of working on
>> some feature without entering production. One nice perk is that this
>> flow will encourage well-written and well-argued enhancement requests.
>>
>> We will follow later today with a preapproved enhancement request. (Of
>> course, we will also preapprove enhancements written by others, too.)
>>
>>
>
> Would it also make sense to have a separate mailing list to post and
> discuss D development process announcements such as this important one?
> That would make it easier for some trying to learn the development
> process of the group.
>
> Something like D.devprocess, D.processes or D.development.

I think we're in good shape. D.announce has low enough traffic as is.

Andrei