Contributing to the compiler? Tracking suggestions?

[Bruno Medeiros]

Bill Baxter wrote:
> Walter Bright wrote:
>> Bill Baxter wrote:
>>> There's also the tracker for D [2], but a comment on one enhancement 
>>> proposal I saw there says that the D issue tracker is reserved for 
>>> suggestions that received positive feedback from Walter, but many 
>>> good ideas are just ignored by Walter until like 90% the community 
>>> jumps up and down about it simultaneously.
>>
>> The suggestions for new features come in *daily*, sometimes several 
>> times a day. It's not possible to give a thoughtful response to them 
>> all, and it would be inappropriate to give a flip response.
>>
>> Let alone the impossibility of implementing all of them, or even all 
>> the good ones.
>>
>> So some sort of vetting process has to happen.
> 
> Understood.  I wasn't trying to say you *should* personally respond to 
> every single thing that comes in -- if you did, you'd waste all your 
> time on the newsgroup, and D would never go anywhere.
> 
> But the fact is you don't have time, and many of the suggestions seem 
> like good ones, so the question is what's the best way to
> 
> A) make these suggestions as digestible as possible for you (and 
> others), [e.g. more formal proposal structure with well-considered 
> discussion of pros-and-cons and ramifications; or say outright patches 
> to GDC] so they have more chance of being considered/accepted.
> 
> B) Even if not accepted make sure they get on a TODO list, somewhere, or 
> at least TO-THINK-MORE-ABOUT list.  I personally like the wiki as a 
> place for that, but I think that page has been around on Wiki4D for a 
> while but gotten very little attention.
> 
> --bb

I had a similar (if not identical) idea some time ago:
http://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/digitalmars/D/40396.html
http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?DCP_Template

The base objective is the same: to flesh out, review and clean proposals 
before they reach to Walter, as well as to avoid repeated discussion. 
This is useful mostly only for complicated proposals or when there is 
some disagreement in the community.

As for point B), it would be an index of the TODOs/Change-Proposals, 
similar to http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?IdeaDiscussion and 
http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?PendingPeeves (this latter one 
has become mostly obsolete with the emergence of the D bugzilla)

-- 
Bruno Medeiros - MSc in CS/E student
http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?BrunoMedeiros#D