The DIP Process

[Nicholas Wilson]

On Friday, 1 March 2019 at 22:01:03 UTC, Jonathan Marler wrote:
> On Friday, 1 March 2019 at 21:23:10 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> When I get involved early in the DIP process, what happens is 
>> the author quits and leaves it to me to finish, which usually 
>> means doing 98% of the work.
>
> This doesn't make sense.  If you leave feedback and the author 
> quits you don't have to take over the work.  Let someone else 
> take it over.  Even better, since you left feedback, the new 
> owner can take your feedback and improve the DIP with it.  If 
> no one takes it over, then the DIP isn't worth anyone's time 
> and you've now saved a years worth of the author's and 
> community's time from researching/revising and debating 
> worthless DIP.

Case in point 
https://github.com/dlang/DIPs/pull/101#issuecomment-414803648