Good question.

Dave/Dmitri: do you have a recommendation here?  I can see either the JIRA 
issues referencing the proposal (if one exists) or updating the gist.  I prefer 
the former.

> On Jul 15, 2016, at 11:18 AM, Will Field-Thompson <will.a...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Is there any way to tell which of the changes in the gist have had proposals 
> associated with them?
> 
> -- Will
> 
>> On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 1:46 PM Ted Kremenek via swift-evolution 
>> <swift-evolut...@swift.org> wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>> 
>> Swift 3 has shaped up to be a remarkable release — a product of the 
>> inspiration, ideas, and hard labor many people from across the Swift open 
>> source community. It is now time, however, to talk about the endgame for the 
>> release.
>> 
>> Here are the key points:
>> 
>> The last day to take planned source-breaking changes for Swift 3 is July 27.
>> 
>> On that day, there will likely be a set of approved-but-not-implemented 
>> proposals for Swift 3 — including proposals for source-breaking changes. 
>> Will have an open discussion on that day on the fate of those unimplemented 
>> proposals in the context of Swift 3 and future Swift releases.
>> 
>> Starting on August 1 we will open up discussion about Swift 4. Part of this 
>> discussion will likely be guided by important work that was deferred from 
>> Swift 3, as well as the a goal of achieving binary stability in Swift 4. 
>> Until then, however, discussion should remain focused on Swift 3.
>> 
>> Note that there is an intentional gap of a few days between the last planned 
>> day to take source-breaking changes for Swift 3 and when we start talking 
>> about Swift 4. The idea is to provide some time for the community to take 
>> stock of where things have ended up for Swift 3.
>> 
>> The final branching plan for Swift 3 development is to be determined, but 
>> the final convergence branch is likely to be cut from master around that 
>> date or shortly after. Part of it comes down to the discussion on July 27 on 
>> how to handle the remaining unimplemented proposals for Swift 3.
>> 
>> The final release date for Swift 3 is TBD, but essentially after July 27 the 
>> intent is that Swift 3 is in full convergence and not in active development.
>> 
>> With these dates in mind, I want to call attention to some 
>> approved-but-not-yet-implemented proposals that currently I have nobody on 
>> Apple's Swift team able to tackle in the next couple weeks:
>> 
>> SE-0042: Flattening the function type of unapplied method references
>> SE-0068: Expanding Swift Self to class members and value types
>> SE-0075: Adding a Build Configuration Import Test
>> SE-0096: Converting dynamicType from a property to an operator
>> SE-0077: Improved operator declarations
>> SE-0092: Typealiases in protocols and protocol extensions
>> SE-0110: Distinguish between single-tuple and multiple-argument function 
>> types
>> Some proposals — like SE-0075 — are things we can add at any time, but many 
>> of the others tie into the goal of achieving some degree of source-stability 
>> for Swift in Swift 3. I'm letting the community know that these proposals 
>> currently have no implementation traction in case there is interest in 
>> helping make them happen in time for Swift 3.
>> 
>> Related, I'd like to call out a special thanks to the community for getting 
>> implementation traction on SE-0095:
>> 
>> SE-0095: Replace protocol<P1,P2> syntax with P1 & P2 syntax
>> Currently there is a JIRA issue and pull request tracking work on 
>> implementing this proposal.
>> 
>> In addition to these language proposals, there is also an assortment of 
>> outstanding work for the Standard Library that would be great to do for 
>> Swift 3. There is a gist summarizing those tasks:
>> 
>> https://gist.github.com/gribozavr/37e811f12b27c6365fc88e6f9645634d
>> These tasks are broken down in relative order of difficulty, with a JIRA 
>> issue associated with each one of them. If a JIRA isssue is currently not 
>> assigned to anyone, please consider them fair game to tackle if you are 
>> interested. API changes that have currently not gone through the evolution 
>> process will still need an evolution proposal, even if they are listed in 
>> the gist. If you take on a specific task, please assign the JIRA issue to 
>> yourself so others know it is being tackled.
>> 
>> Thank you to everyone — and I mean everyone — who has contributed to making 
>> Swift 3 happen.
>> 
>> Ted
>> 
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