[ruby-core:50940] [ruby-trunk - Feature #7549] A Ruby Design Process

Issue #7549 has been updated by nathany (Nathan Youngman).


@brixen I feel that your proposed process is requesting too many changes all at once. We need to take small steps.

I humbly suggest that we rely on prior works.  Let's borrow from our neighbours, by adapting the processes other language communities use successfully. Then trim them down to what we can reasonably implement.

To that end, I suggest that we all read through the "Python Enhancement Proposal: Purpose and Guidelines". It could provide a good starting point, with written proposals that may be accepted or rejected, but without changing the role of Matz as BDFL. http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0001/

A summary and a few more thoughts are posted to my blog:
http://nathany.com/ruby-design

Nathan
just some guy who enjoys Ruby :-)

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Feature #7549: A Ruby Design Process
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/7549#change-34794

Author: brixen (Brian Ford)
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Matz,

At RubyConf 2012, I gave a talk about a design process for Ruby (http://www.confreaks.com/videos/1278-rubyconf2012-toward-a-design-for-ruby). So far, over 12,000 people have viewed that talk. I think it is reasonable to say that many people are concerned about and interested in a design process for Ruby.

On Monday, we had an IRC meeting of Ruby implementers. Most of the points in my proposal were discussed but I'm concerned that a lot of confusion remains.

I have written a post that describes a Ruby design process and hopefully clarifies points that people found confusing:

http://brixen.io/2012/12/11/a-ruby-design-process

I would like to propose this process for making changes to Ruby. I am going to put a summary of the process at http://rubyspec.org/design and ask for people who support the process to submit their signature. I'd like to request that you consider the response from the community for my proposal.

Thank you,
Brian



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