Go Proposals

Russ Cox
August 5, 2019
research.swtch.com/proposals

Posted on Monday, August 5, 2019.

These are the posts in the “Go Proposals” series that began in August 2019:

• “Thinking about the Go Proposal Process” [PDF].
• “Go Proposal Process: Clarity & Transparency” [PDF].
• “Large Changes” [PDF].
• “Scaling Discussions” [PDF].
• “Enabling Experiments” [PDF].
• “Representation” [PDF].

These are Go issues filed to track (or in one case implement) ideas discussed in the series:

• #33502 proposal: meeting minutes
  This issue collects the minutes of each proposal review meeting. Star the issue to follow along with what happens each week.
• #33522 proposal: gopherbot: add proposal process status box to each proposal issue
  Discussed in “Clarity & Transparency.”
• #33524 proposal: update proposal/README.md to stand alone
  Discussed in “Clarity & Transparency.”
• #33528 proposal: separate proposal review from contended decision-making
  Discussed in “Clarity & Transparency.”
• #33670 proposal: identify large changes & add more process
  Discussed in “Large Changes.”
• #33791 proposal: add explicit decision doc for large changes
  Discussed in “Scaling Discussions.”