The DIP Process

[Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa)]

On 2/26/19 6:28 AM, Mike Parker wrote:
> https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0001/#start-with-an-idea-for-python
> 
> The core of the process is the same. What they add to it is this:
> 
> "The PEP champion (a.k.a. Author) should first attempt to ascertain 
> whether the idea is PEP-able. Posting to the comp.lang.python newsgroup 
> (a.k.a. python-list at python.org mailing list) or the 
> python-ideas at python.org mailing list is the best way to go about this.

I strongly agree that's the right way to do things. In fact, we already 
do it that way in D. But there's one key difference between the way 
Python does that and the way D does it: When *we* do that here in D, the 
post is immediately followed by a public lynching at having had THE 
NERVE to suggest an idea change without writing both a complete DIP and 
PR first.