The Problem With DIPs

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On Friday, 10 June 2016 at 14:38:35 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
> On Friday, 10 June 2016 at 10:38:49 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
> wrote:
>> On 6/10/16 9:00 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>>> On 2016-06-09 23:34, Walter Bright wrote:
>>>
>>>> That doesn't stop anyone from commenting on them, offering 
>>>> improvements,
>>>> doing some promotion of them, organizing handling them, etc.
>>>
>>> If feel that's a bit pointless if no one with some form of 
>>> authority
>>> will look at it.
>>
>> It's much better than making informal remarks on the forum, 
>> which then scroll out of memory. I encourage people who have 
>> good ideas and are willing and able to take them to completion 
>> to formulate them as DIPs. Good quality DIPs will eventually 
>> get discussed more often and end up being implemented. -- 
>> Andrei
>
> What is the statistics for DIPs authored by outsiders vs being 
> implemented?

I don't think that any DIP was proposed by an outsider - the 
major problem is that the "Approval" process isn't formal at all, 
that's why so many DIPs are "Drafts".
Have a look yourself at the DIP wiki: http://wiki.dlang.org/DIP