new DIP1: DIP Template

[Leandro Lucarella]

Stewart Gordon, el 14 de julio a las 18:39 me escribiste:
> 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 didn't used the poll because is way too informal and brief. I think the
newsgroups *are* part of the DIPs, I suggested doing all the discussion in
the NG. I didn't knew about the FeatureRequestList wiki page, I'm sorry
about that, but I still think it's too informal too. I think DIP can be
seen as a more formal version of the same thing there.

As I said in other mail, I think Bugzilla could be a good choice, but it's
a little too restricted to write a proposal because of the lack of format;
and because proposals get lost in a sea of bugs. I guess this can be
addressed doing a meta-bug as an index for proposals or something, but
I think that separating bugs and proposals is a good thing.

> 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.

Agree.

> Maybe this new system could cut it, if we add:
> 
> - a space in which to discuss the proposals

I think the best place for discussion is the NG.

> - possibly a voting system

I'm not *that* convinced about voting, I think voting should be done only
when no consensus is achieved, and that should be rare cases. I'll tackle
that when the need comes.

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