[cxx-abi-dev] A proposed proposal process for the Itanium ABI

[David Vandevoorde]

My apologies for not getting back to this earlier:

On Aug 24, 2012, at 6:12 PM, John McCall wrote:
[...]
>    So, the process is:  for any non-editorial changes, we'll make
> sure that it's sent out in advance.  At some, when consensus seems to have
> developed (and for a lot of the back-log items, that will probably be
> "as part of the same email"), Mark or I will announce that it'll be committed
> after <concrete period of time> if there aren't any more objections.  The
> period of time will vary according to how major we think the change is, but
> it'll never be less than two days, and it'll be at least two full weeks if there's
> been serious debate on the list (for back-log changes, this includes at the
> initial time of proposal).  Furthermore, anyone can ask us to hold off while
> they investigate and/or draft a response.
> 
> To make the lifetime of a proposal as clear as possible, we'll also signal the
> list after committing anything non-editorial, and we'll try not to have more than
> two proposals under discussion at once.

Sounds excellent to me.  Thanks!

	Daveed