On Feb 21, 2008, at 5:03 PM, Graydon Hoare wrote: > Maciej Stachowiak wrote: > >> What I am asking is this: for each proposal where you'd like early >> implementations, before implementation commences please write down >> enough information about that proposal in some reasonably >> understandable form to represent the current shared understanding >> of the insiders/old-timers. > > Ok. Understand though that you're asking for a bit of a change to > the game plan. That's a reasonable demand but the "early-early" > imlpementations (RI, futhark, spidermonkey, esc) were all done by > people who *did* have that shared understanding (through earlier > participation and discussion) and *did* find the SML we were all > working on "reasonably understandable". > > So presenting yourself as a participant with neither of those > supports in place, you're sort of walking into a room, kicking the > legs out from under a table and asking why it's suddenly on the > floor. We need to revise the strategy a bit to help for your case, > if we can't rely on those. Please try to be patient if this takes > some time; none of us had put "write pre-impl docs" in our current > work-assignment schedules. We'll need to make room to do it. I can > probably dedicate a month of nearly-full-time energy to this > starting in the first week of march. Soon enough?
I'm totally willing to wait for documentation that is more clear and up to date. What concerned me was that it wasn't part of the plan at all, and that Brendan at least seemed unreceptive to the request. That it takes time is natural. Ultimately for ES4 to be a meaningful standard, it has to have a spec that is comprehensible without special insider information. My expectation was that at least parts of it would start to approach that point before they reached the implementation phase. I'm surprised that this wasn't the plan already, but I'm glad you are willing to be flexible. Regards, Maciej _______________________________________________ Es4-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es4-discuss
