Expanding Phobos from a flat hierachy

[Brad Anderson]

On Wednesday, 6 February 2013 at 11:38:31 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
> AFAIR there was proposal of a "future" meta package for 
> introducing new modules with time to adapt, similar to how it 
> is done in few other languages.

I really like the idea of an experimental section of phobos. I've 
been thinking lately that the phobos review might be improved by 
doing something more like this:

1. Proposal
2. Review and vote of overall usefulness and whether it meets a 
certain quality requirement.
3. Module is placed in experimental section of phobos with strong 
warnings that it is a trial module and could be removed in a 
future update.
4. Following a set period of time after the module has been in a 
public release another vote is held for actual inclusion.
5. If yea, move to its final resting place, if nay remove it for 
the experimental section.

People are much more likely to actually test something if it's 
right at their fingertips and they don't have to download it and 
set up module paths and all of that. This isn't particularly hard 
with D but I think the easier it is for people to do, the better 
the reviews and module quality will be. Also, giving a hard time 
period within which the module can be modified freely because 
nobody expects it to be set in stone would help a lot.

BA