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

[Hisham <h@...>]

On 3 May 2014 15:18, Karel Tuma <kat@lua.cz> wrote:
> bigger projects had to tame it with standardised community proposal
> process (BitTorrent, Python, Bitcoin...).

Because these projects are community-developed. Lua is not
community-developed so there is no multi-step "process" through which
a proposal turns into a feature. The process is that people throw
ideas around and the Lua team may adopt your ideas (but not your code,
for some reason) or not. In particular, they seem unimpressed by
arguments-by-numbers, so any kind of "voting" (including posts saying
"+1 from me", "I agree") doesn't seem to have any impact.

They've repeated time and again that ideas are considered more
carefully if accompanied with a prototype implementation that shows
its feasibility and/or compelling real-life use cases. Still, this
implies no guarantee that they will take it or even give feedback on
it. Well-prepared proposals are likely to raise good discussion on the
list, in any case.

I predict the URL for Andrew's message in the list archives will be
reposted here many times in the future.

-- Hisham