This planning session took place on January 23. The goal was to
finalize the details of the first edition.
## The Attendees
* Walter Bright
* Rikki Cattermole
* Jonathan M. Davis
* Dennis Korpel
* Mathias Lang
* Mike Parker
* Átila Neves
* Robert Schadek
* Steven Schveighoffer
* Adam Wilson
## The summary
Some time ago, we agreed in principle that the first edition
should be focused on plugging holes in existing language
features. But in scheduling this meeting, I asked everyone to
prepare a list of what they thought should be in the first
edition without constraining the list items to plugging holes.
We started with Átila's list, which included things like removing
`synchronized` and class monitors, and an explict syntax for
classes that would allow applying attributes to class instances
instead of only the reference.
After a few minutes, Dennis said this all seemed out of scope for
the first edition. He suggested limiting the scope to existing
deprecations and preview switches, and leaving other ideas for
later editions.
Jonathan thought that even if we were to do that, we should also
at least plug safety holes by making `@system` anything we knew
wasn't memory safe right now. This kind of thing was the
motivation of our initial decision about plugging holes in the
first edition.
We covered some other topics, like what we should use to specify
the pre-editions version of the language. The DIP called for `0`,
but Walter didn't like that, primarily because it added an extra
check in the code. We eventually came around to the idea that it
should be any number lower than the first edition, e.g., if
`2026` is the first edition, then any number `< 2026` represents
the pre-editions language.
## Conclusion
The final outcome was that we agreed the first edition would
focus on removing currently deprecated features. This would be a
good test run for the editions implementation. The next step was
to compile a list of all deprecated features and determine what
the set of removals should be.
We're having another planning session at the end of this month
where we'll finalize the deprecations and start talking about the
next edition, which we subsequently agreed should focus on
enabling some of the preview switches by default. We'll open that
up to discussion in the forums.
