Announcement: "preapproved" tag added to bugzilla

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

Hello,

As part of our continued efforts to improve the process, we have added 
the "preapproved" tag to bugzilla.

An enhancement request that has the "preapproved" tag is considered 
reviewed and vetted by Walter (and myself on occasion). An 
implementation of the issue is guaranteed to be approved pending 
technical review.

This is part of a larger attempt to make it easy for contributors to 
work on items of maximum impact, while hedging the risk of working on 
some feature without entering production. One nice perk is that this 
flow will encourage well-written and well-argued enhancement requests.

We will follow later today with a preapproved enhancement request. (Of 
course, we will also preapprove enhancements written by others, too.)


Thanks,

Andrei