Re: Proposal: Proposals are the wrong approach [prose and long]

[Karel Tuma <kat@...>]

Excerpts from Andrew Starks's message of 2014-05-03 19:31:17 +0200:
> tl;dr

You, sir, won my day with your wonderful sense for irony. Walls of text
are the worst, works maybe only with numbered sections RFCs.

In fact, it wouldn't hurt to tag emails [RFC], [RANT] or [PATCH], see:

> As a recovering Proposal Factory, these are some things I think before
> setting down to write about a change to Lua:

Banal and cosmetic changes, which are unfortunately majority 
brought up in here, without (at least sketch) implementation is not
proposal at all, but empty [RANT].

So while I claim to be no proposal expert either, here goes my [RANT]:

While Lua is comparably small so there is no need to formalize,
bigger projects had to tame it with standardised community proposal
process (BitTorrent, Python, Bitcoin...). Even then, for simple
stuff, one is given voice only if there is either workable proof
[PATCH]/[ANN] of concept code or legible [RFC] formal spec.

tl;dr:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kuCI1dv20Y

--k