new DIP1: DIP Template

Andrei Alexandrescu SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org
Tue Jul 14 10:43:03 PDT 2009


Stewart Gordon wrote:
> A nice idea; however, my feeling is that there are too many places for 
> proposing D features.  At the moment, feature proposals are split between:
> 
> - the newsgroups
> - the eigenpoll - http://all-technology.com/eigenpolls/dwishlist/
> - the wiki - http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?FeatureRequestList
> - Bugzilla
> - and now, DIPs
> 
> What does this achieve that the others don't?

I think the eigenpoll is just a bitzombie. The newsgroup lacks 
structure; messages come and go. Bugzilla is ok for discussions but bot 
very good for collaboratively maintaining a structured and formatted 
document.

> I think what we need is 
> to consolidate all the still-open feature proposals from these various 
> systems into something that achieves the best of all five worlds.

That's a great idea looking for a taker...


Andrei



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