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

[Daniel Cartwright]

I agree, but I believe that their should be a clear cutoff for when it
becomes silly to continue debating a name (only after consensus of
approval). Perhaps 3 weeks is too short, but I am strongly in favour of a
cutoff for a discussion period of the name, maybe on a per-proposal basis.

On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 12:26 PM, David Feuer <david.feuer at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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