Proposal: Formalise rules for how names are chosen for approved proposals

[David Feuer]

Sometimes the choice of name is fairly uncontroversial and no further
bureaucracy is required. Sometimes a good name bubbles up clearly out of
the discussion. The rest of the time we may need something more formal.

On Tue, Mar 27, 2018, 12:13 PM Daniel Cartwright <chessai1996 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Currently the decision of a name has been left to LML, but I can see
> leaving it to the Core Libraries Committee (CLC) as being a potentially
> good idea. One problem with that is fewer people = fewer chance for a good
> name. I know many programmers have trouble naming things all the time. Good
> names are hard to come by, and by leaving it to the LML we can hope that
> statistically that one of the best names will win.
>
> On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 12:00 PM, Francesco Ariis <fa-ml at ariis.it> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 11:21:35AM -0400, Daniel Cartwright wrote:
>> > Phase 3. Proposal is approved by the LML - members of LML, for a period
>> of
>> > 3 weeks, each get up to 3 picks for a name. At the end of the 3 week
>> > period, the occurrence of each name is tallied. The name with the most
>> > tallies, becomes the name.
>>
>> I would rather have Core Libraries Committee to decide. They are
>> experienced, trusted and embodies the community as a whole!
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