References in D

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 9/17/12 9:43 AM, Russel Winder wrote:
> Somewhat hypocritically as I cannot volunteer myself just now… just
> because Walter didn't get round to it, doesn't mean it can't be done.
> People who want the feature should find a way of creating the resource
> to make it happen. Four ways: volunteer to do the work themselves; club
> together to raise the cash to contract someone to do the work; get an
> organization to stump up a person to do the work; get an organization or
> seven to stump up cash to contract someone to do the work. There is
> nothing quite like providing a pull request to get things moving ;-)

Yah indeed. We should improve and systematize the use of DIPs. A DIP 
should have specific states such as "RFC", "For review", "Accepted", 
"Implementing", and "Implemented".

The acceptance of a DIP means that an implementation of it will be 
merged without objections (save, of course, for implementation-related 
ones).

Committing to such a process ensures that features are specified in good 
level of detail and would encourage people to work on things in 
understanding that their work will bear fruit.


Andrei