My understanding is that "harmony" refers perpetually to ES-next, whatever that thing is at the time. Since ES6 now has a name and a (draft) spec, it no longer is harmony (it's ES6). The wiki doesn't reflect this, but this is what (I think) I have observed from what TC39 members have said.
On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 1:45 PM, Domenic Denicola < dome...@domenicdenicola.com> wrote: > I think part of the confusion is that, from what I understand, "harmony" > refers to things that are agreed upon by all TC39 members, or at least were > at one time. But this does *not* imply it being in ES6. > > That is, much confusion I've seen on the internet stems from people > assuming "harmony" means ES6, since for so long we were calling it > "ECMAScript Harmony." > > I'd suggest either downgrading non-ES6 proposals to strawman, or creating > a new "es6" namespace and moving the relevant pages there. The former is > probably very appropriate for things that were once harmonious, but now > contentious or obsoleted by other features. > > -- > > Of course, the actual solution for all this is for me to launch a bunch of > pull requests against Dave's new wiki, giving it the same breadth and depth > as the current one. Then we can point the internet to that as the > authoritative source of information, with the current wiki used more as a > scratchpad or historical archive. I'll try to re-shuffle my to-do list... > > ------------------------------ > *From:* es-discuss-boun...@mozilla.org [es-discuss-boun...@mozilla.org] > on behalf of Rick Waldron [waldron.r...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* Friday, January 18, 2013 13:20 > *To:* David Bruant > *Cc:* Brendan Eich; es-discuss Steen > *Subject:* Re: Wiki and drafts (was: Polyfill for Maps and Sets) > > Cool, check this: > https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/es-discuss/2013-January/028270.html :) > > That's not all of them, but I'll go through it all again for anything I > missed (unless you want to list any here, which would be fantastic) > > > Rick > > > On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 1:08 PM, David Bruant <bruan...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Le 18/01/2013 18:58, Rick Waldron a écrit : >> >>> It doesn't seem reasonable to maintain two versions of the proposals as >>> they become specifications. >>> >>> My first thought is that the simplest possible strategy is to update >>> harmony proposal pages (on the wiki) with a line at the top that indicates >>> that the proposal is now in the spec draft. This is low effort-cost to >>> convey that everyone should be looking at the latest and greatest of each >>> proposal as they become part of the ES6 draft revisions and progress >>> towards finalization therein. >>> >> I fully agree. It'll bring more attention to what happens in the drafts >> and will make more people to review them. >> Also, if something in the harmony namespace is put on hold like >> harmony:classes it should probably be downgraded to the strawman namespace. >> >> David >> > > > _______________________________________________ > es-discuss mailing list > es-discuss@mozilla.org > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss > >
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