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

Francesco Ariis fa-ml at ariis.it
Tue Mar 27 16:42:52 UTC 2018


On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 12:12:07PM -0400, Daniel Cartwright 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.

I will second what David Feuer said: consensus among ML participants,
if that fails the CLC can intervene.


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